40 funny and real tweets from married people about what marriage is really like.

Marriage may not be exactly the lifetime of romance and hand-holding that the wedding industry and romantic comedies want us to believe. Of course, a good marriage is based on love — but add to that heaping portions of annoying habits, arguments over the thermostat, looking for the remote, and fighting over time in the bathroom. If you want to make your marriage last in spite of the inevitable challenges, it helps a lot to be able to laugh at yourselves — and not just at each other. Although that helps, too.

Here are 40 funny and honest tweets from married people that sum up what marriage is really like:

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