Written by my sweet friend, Brianna Glaze! We don't consider each other friends, but instead family! With her permission, I share with you all!

We've had a lot of younger friends get married or engaged this year. Last night I saw a kid I've known for a long time who got engaged. I sent him a teasing message about getting hitched up. "any advice" he replied. Nah-"you'll figure it out as you go." and he was surprised by my lack of words. lol.

I try to avoid giving advice on marriage or babies. Last night I couldn't sleep so I was scrolling through my never-ending rolodex of irrational thoughts-What if zombies are ever a real thing? Do I even have a weapon close to my bed to murder a zombie if I needed to? What's that noise? Should I check on the kids? I wonder if that's an owl outside making that noise or a baby bobcat-be cool if it was a bobcat. What WOULD I tell that kid about his marriage? What do people say? Let me think.... *never stop dating your wife *don't go to bed angry *always kiss her goodnight. *GAG *LAME.

Always kiss her goodnight is the equivalent of a 65-year-old, telling the new mom to "enjoy every moment because it goes so fast." Seriously, the woman hasn't showered in 4 days, currently has bleeding nipples and she secured approximately 24 minutes of sleep last night. Your advice is lame, Martha! That's all the easy stuff. I mean, when you are first married you've got the only thing you need on your side....Love.

How about some real shit that will help him and his marriage down the line. I didn't send this but he'll come across it on his own time. So here is my version of "always kiss her goodnight" ~ Take your woman to bed with you. I know what your thinking. Sex. Sure, yes have lots of fun sex, that's a big part of it, but that's not what I mean by taking your woman to bed with you. You see, life is only going to get busier and crazier from here on out. Because she is a woman, your wife will always have a fuller plate than yours. I don't care how busy you think you are, she always has more to do than she can handle. It's not enough to invite her to come to bed. She has shit to get done and there is no luxury in waiting. For her, it's the difference between a chore and a mountain to climb if she waits. You need that woman in bed WITH you. Snuggle, read your books, watch tv, make-love, or fart under the covers for all I care, but take your woman to bed with you. The only way you can do this is to help her. Fold a load of towels, finish loading the dishwasher, order the thing on Amazon at the kitchen table while she wipes down the trashcan with ketchup all over it. Pay the bills together, mop the floor, match the stupid socks because you know she hates that part. Help her finish her day so that she can go to a safe place with you...your bed.

In the next few years, your wife is going to blow your mind. She'll cook, clean, schedule, and plan. She'll carry your babies, gain 40 pounds, and tiger stripes on her belly. You'll watch in amazement as she comes busting through the door with 17 shopping bags draped on her arms, a baby on her hip, and the phone to her ear. She'll seem invincible...fireproof. If you aren't careful you might begin to think she can do it all by herself. You might think, as long as she's not on fire that she's good. She's fine.

If you kiss her goodnight and leave her to her work, with no help, she will get the work done nonetheless, but she will suffer from the burden. And that woman that you regard as fireproof will then be forced to set herself on fire just so that you'll see she needs help. It's called crisis status. Not a fun place for anyone to be or to witness and you can avoid it if you just keep your head out of your ass!! She needs help!

Never let your woman reach the crisis status and stand there shocked, looking like you're about to throw water on a grease fire, rather than turn down the burner. That woman has been smoking for 6 days, son! You just didn't stop to see. If that happens, that fireproof woman standing in your kitchen, fully engulfed in flames, threatening to burn down the fucking house, will leave you both with scars.

She's not crazy she's tired. Too tired. She's not nagging -she's starting to smolder. Make it so she doesn't have to set herself on fire for you. Help her finish her day so she can go to bed with you. Her bed shouldn't be a place she slips into in the dark, day in and day out. It should be her safe place, with you. If that is the kind of bed (life) you make for your wife, then it will be a bed she never wants to leave. If you smell smoke, take a burden from her. Nobody ever wants to stand in the ashes of a burned-down house *goes both ways, ladies and gents.

This is obviously written from the perspective of a wife. I'm sure the male version would be something shockingly similar.

Written by my sweet friend, Brianna Glaze! We don't consider each other ”friends” but instead ”family”! With her permission, I share with you all!