Everything is broken. That's right, everything. The sooner a Nice Guy can come to this realization, the sooner he will see positive changes in his life.

Nothing lasts forever. Your current phone may be your favorite model yet. Maybe your wife gave it to you as Christmas gift. Maybe you are babying it and have a case on it. Sure, it isn't broken yet...but one day it will be.

One day you'll drop it and it will shatter and you'll move on to another phone. Broken. Maybe you'll keep it for 5 years and then the battery won't hold a charge anymore. Broken. Your kids will get their grubby hands on it and get milk under the screen. Broken...but you can't baby it. That means you aren't enjoying it fully in the here and now.

Same applies to your wife. AWALT simply means that she is broken. Maybe it's a small crack now and it's easy for you to push it out of mind (ONEitis), or maybe it's a large crack that everybody can all see. Either way she is broken. You don't own her, she is only yours in this very moment. As an aside, YOU are also broken. MRP is a system for increasing your longevity.

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder" and "you took it for granted". Eliminate the pain by treating everything you have as if it is gone right now. Embrace the concept and you'll waste no time when things break. It was to be expected. It is inevitable. Every relationship you have will break one day. This is reality.

Application: I no longer get frustrated when wife gives me attitude. I recognize that this is the baseline, or the norm. Sometimes she goes days without doing so, but I should not count on that or it will lead to disappointment. AWALT. This allows me to live life and enjoy relationships to the fullest extent. Everything is broken (or will be one day). This is being a realist, and not having a covert contract for every relationship in my life.