"Training Your Spouse"

Run over this article on Training Spouse. Basically, it says if you want your spouse develop into certain habit your like, you need train him/her like training a dolphin -- Reward every step toward the goal, and Ignore every bit that you don't want or desire.

Remarkable!

In practice, the "ignore" part is the most difficult part. The essence of "ignore" is not to express your anger, annoyance, worry, dislike when you actually feels them, many time, strongly feels it. How can a mortal possibly do that?