15 ways to be a better wife

It is one thing to be a girlfriend and another to be a wife. Being a wife is a lifetime commitment to be everything to that significant other.

The usual trend is that before being a wife, you care about how you look around your boyfriend, what he says he likes and what he doesn't, how he likes to see you without makeup and all but after he put a ring on it, most women just tend to let everything go.

They become unconscious of the "till death do you part", and are overwhelmed with the union called marriage.

Sustaining a marriage is a no-retirement job and requires a lot of learning, sacrifices and compromises. So how do you keep it working?

Michelle Horton of YourTango gives women 15 tips on how to be a better wife to sustain your marriage