Provide feedback. When your partner does something that irritates you, don't remain silent and seething. Inform your spouse about the problem and offer a more productive approach to do, say, or mend things in your life together. Consider disagreement to be a natural aspect of marriage, rather than something to be avoided. "When you marry, you also have each other's parents and siblings—or even children—as sources of support," Krawiec notes. "Married persons have a larger pool of prospective supporters." However, that is not the same as friendship, and mistaking one for the other can lead to marital problems, according to Krawiec.