Convince her a concert would be worth the hassle!

This thing restarted AGAIN!

These tips are from The Husband Book: A Guy's Guide To Marriage by Harry Harrison Junior, which I plan to give to my brother for his wedding.

Music and the Arts

Take her to a flower show once or twice a year. Smile and nod at the other husbands.

Dance with her in the kitchen.

Buy a piano.

Take her to the symphony, to musicals. You might like them. REALLY.

If your children are practicing their tuba lessons, confirm her thoughts that they could be really big stars.

Tell her often she has a great voice, even if there's evidence to the contrary.

When she wants to drag the whole family to a museum thirty miles away, tell the kids it's important they understand the Impressionist period. Let it go at that.

Don't think because you were once in a band, she's dying to hear you play. She's lying.

Convince her a concert would be worth the hassle.

Learn to love art galleries.

She'll insist the kids learn to play piano. Smile and nod. That will take care of itself.

Give up the idea of the velvet Elvis painting.

Buy her a stereo that fits on a shelf. Listen to her music at breakfast and dinnertime.

Just because she went with you to seedy country-and-western bars fifteen years ago doesn't mean she liked it then. Or now.

When she mentions vacationing in Amsterdam so the two of you can study the Dutch Masters, smile and nod.