Editor's note: You can build a happier, more loving marriage starting right now, today, with tried and true tips - not from some pop psychologist, but from the wellspring of common sense. Simply read and think about the ideas on this page and start making YOUR marriage GREAT again.

You deserve a SUPER MARRIAGE - $5 cure for marital blahs and five other ways to feel like honeymooners again

By DEREK CLONTZ
Your World Report

ONCE IN A WHILE pretend you're 16 again. Make a game of being madly and crazily in love. Pinpoint the nearest drive-in or lovers' lane, and ... well, do we really have to say more? You know what to do

SET ASIDE $5 and not a penny more to buy your sweetie a gift each and every month. Why $5? You'll really have to THINK to find a meaningful gift for $5 - and that thinking, even more than the gift itself, will express your love in a big way.

MAKE A LIST and please DO check it twice. List five things you like about your marriage and five things you like about your mate. Then list five things you DONT like about each of them. Ask your spouse to do the same. "Sit" on your lists for five days - feel free to change your minds as often as you like. On the fifth day exchange lists. Promise to wait five MORE days before you comment.

Set aside time to TALK. You'll be amazed at what those lists can do to make an unhappy marriage strong again.

READ ONE BOOK each and every month - together. Take turns choosing titles and just see how much you have to talk about.

TURN OFF the boob tube two nights a week and spend the evening within eyeshot of - or even better, cuddling with - your spouse. Is the conversation lively? Do you have anything to talk about? If not, work at it until the conversation flows freely and easily. You'll grow close and more attuned to one another in no tlme - wlth "love benefits" galore.

SEX IS VITAL to your marital, mental and physical health. If sexual incompatibility is a problem, stop fumlng - and start taking the situation seriously. Don't pretend the problem will go away - and don't be afraid to seek the counsel of a therapist. Your county mental health center and colleges and universities provide these services for free. Pick up the phone and ask how to get yours.

This most basic and powerful of human drives, when frustrated, will damage the strongest of marnages - If not destroy them outnght. If physical response such as impotence or frigidity is a problem, remember the first rule of sensational sex: Use your imagination and let the fireworks begin.

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