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happy wife, happy life

happy wife, happy life proverb: if you keep your wife happy, you will avoid trouble.

Proverb

happy wife, happy life

  1. if you keep your wife happy, you will avoid trouble.
    • There's all sorts of antiquated marriage advice out there, but it turns out that there's one relationship trope that actually holds true: "Happy wife, happy life."2014 September 22, Rebecca Adams, “Study Finds That 'Happy Wife, Happy Life' Is Pretty Dead On”, in Huffington Post
    • In a “Happy Wife Happy Life” relationship, men suffer in silence and women believe everything is okay as long as they’re getting what they want.2018 February 10, Rick Fortier, “Exposing the Myth of ‘Happy Wife Happy Life’”, in The Good Men Project

Forms of happy wife, happy life

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Questions about happy wife, happy life

What does happy wife, happy life mean?
Happy wife, happy life means if you keep your wife happy, you will avoid trouble.
What part of speech is happy wife, happy life?
Happy wife, happy life is a proverb.

Words near happy wife, happy life in the dictionary

  1. Happy Valley
  2. Happy Valley-Goose Bay
  3. happy vowel
  4. happy vowels
  5. happy waitress
  6. happy wife, happy life
  7. happy, happy, joy, joy
  8. happy-clappies
  9. happy-clappy
  10. happy-go-luckier
  11. happy-go-luckies

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