What's the Biggest No-No in Marriage?

In this episode of the Dennis Prager Show’s “Male‑Female Hour,” host Dennis Prager asks callers to identify the single greatest mistake that can destroy a marriage. Prager states his own answer early: publicly humiliating or berating one’s spouse. Throughout the broadcast, a range of callers offer alternative "no‑nos" – Paul cites failure to communicate; Norma argues that lying erodes trust; John discusses the role of divorce as a deterrent; Don shares a personal story of covert public humiliation; JD questions whether infidelity is a form of marital murder and how it intersects with public humiliation. Prager repeatedly references John Gottman’s research on contempt as the one relational factor couples cannot survive, and he frames public humiliation as a form of contempt that is especially corrosive. He also explores the paradox of the “option of divorce,” arguing that the ability to be “fired” from a marriage can motivate spouses to work harder, while the certainty of staying together may breed complacency. The conversation weaves between philosophical reflections on dignity, personal anecdotes, and practical advice about giving second chances, while interspersed with sponsor spots for AmFed Coin & Bullion and promotional plugs for DennisPrager.com. The episode ends with Prager acknowledging the difficulty of understanding why people humiliate loved ones and invites listeners to submit further thoughts.
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On today's episode of Timeless Wisdom, if you had to offer your opinion on what is the biggest no-no in a marriage, I think I have the answer to that question.
The answer is the failure to communicate, and by this I mean the unwillingness to listen and/or to voice your opinion.
The thing that I have found that will destroy any relationship is lying. If you cannot trust that other person and have the audacity to lie to you, then how can you trust them in the future?
What do you have?
I'm sure you have something in mind. Give it— give me the example that's in your mind.
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I'm old-fashioned. I like two sexes. And another thing, all of a sudden I don't like being married to what is known as a new woman. I want a wife, not a competitor. Competitor. Competitor.
Talk about a bit, this crying in the morning thing, this depression, you know. Let's get that fixed. That's what men think, isn't it? What? Unless you've got the answer. Unless you can say, oh, I know this bloke in the Essex Road who could fix that. And there's no point bothering.
How do you write women so well?
I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.
I love him, I love him, and I don't care what you think. I love him for the, for the man he wants to be, and I love him for the man that he almost is.
What do people have rows about?
Money, sex, sex, money.
He wants, she doesn't want.
She wants, he doesn't want.
Women have always been a big problem to me, Dr. Fassbendt. Are you listening, Doctor?
Yes, yes, yes, go on, go on.
I always begin the male-female hour with a big smile because of "yes, yes, go on, go on." That is enough to make my day. Hello, my friends. I'm Dennis Prager, and this is the hour each week on Wednesdays that we devote to the relations between men and women, the natures of men and women. We call it the male-female hour because it's even— goes more primal even than just man-woman, goes to the male and the female. So today's subject is, if you had to offer your opinion on what is the biggest no-no in a marriage, in a relationship. What would you say it is?
Now think about it. Don't call right now.
If you call right now, we're not going to take the call. Okay, hold on. I want you to— I'm serious, I want you to think, because I will tell you what I think it is to give you an idea of where my, my mind is headed.
Now the obvious answer people say is infidelity.
I would argue that's a no-no, obviously, and it has its own— and it's its own universe of sin and so on. But in terms of destroying a relationship, I think there are even worse things than, than an unfaithful evening. And that's bad and it's sinful and everything. That's not my point. My point is not to defend it.
My point is to say there are even things that are more destructive. Here is my vote. Can I please have a drum roll?
The drummer was smoking pot. My vote for the biggest no-no in a relationship, and certainly in a marriage, is publicly humiliating your spouse. Now you can call. 1-8-Prager-776 is 877-243-7776. 877-243-7776.
I have, I have seen this. I'll tell you, when I do see this, it is hard to make me exquisitely uncomfortable.
I'm comfortable in my own skin. I, uh, things— I let a lot of things bounce off me, as I think we all have to do.
But when I am in the presence of a spouse humiliating him or her, I, I want to do the proverbial dig a hole and jump in. I also want to dig a hole and throw the the party doing it in the hole. I want to say to the other one, how do you deal with this? There, I have to say, I, I have a question that I don't know the answer to. If I were to video she— her doing this to him, or him doing this to her, and then showed the video to the one doing it, would they want to go into a hole?
I don't think so. I don't think so, but I don't know.
I would be— it would be— maybe I'm wrong. Maybe half the time they would think, oh my God, I didn't realize I'd come off that way. That's possible. I don't know the answer to that question. If you have dealt with that And there are therapists who listen to the show. If you have dealt with that with patients, with couples or individuals, I'd be very curious to know how these— how people see themselves who do this. By the way, let me put it also in the positive. I've asked for what you think is the biggest no-no. That's the one.
I mean, look, there are a lot of things that shouldn't be done, but that to me, that's the number one.
'Cause in case you didn't know me, and if you listen to me enough, you do know me, I promise. This is me, and ask people who know me, it's me. And I have a deep, deep concern about the dignity of every human being. That's why I never humiliate listener, even if they say something foolish, or even guests whom I differ with. There are hosts, you've seen them yourselves, who like to humiliate guests.
I've never done that in 26 years of radio.
And in my private life, the same. I love maintaining people's dignity. For whatever reason, that is a very big, big thing to me. And so when I see it done by a spouse who will just berate her husband, her husband or his wife in front of others. I am just mortified. How does this happen?
And if—
now you may have— there are two things going on here. Now one is to react to what I am mentioning.
Remember, I'm asking not What is problematic in any relationship?
What's the biggest no-no? To me, that's the biggest no-no.
Now, there— others may vote for other things.
A lot of people would vote for an infidelity, but I, I have to tell you, as bad as it is, and obviously it is, uh, I would say that over the long term, humiliating your spouse is going to have a more decisive, destructive impact than even a brief affair, as destructive as that could be. And, you know, to say that— please understand, I'm hardly minimizing the potential destructive element of an affair, but I'm only maximizing how destructive constant berating is. In fact, who was it, John what's-his-name, that great, the genius practically in Seattle, Who watches a couple and in what, in 8 minutes he could tell you in how long they'll divorce. John Gott, is it? No, not Gottman. Gutman? Take a look because I want to give him the credit. He said, and this guy's apparently, he's gifted in this arena. Just gifted. And we've had him on.
We should have him on again in fact. It's a good idea for a male-female hour to have him on.
He said there's one thing— a couple can survive many things, and couples do survive many— there's one thing that they can't survive: contempt.
Now, it's not the same exact thing as the no-no I'm talking about, but it's very, very related. I'm talking about— look, berating even in private is awful, but in public, humiliating your spouse?
Hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo.
Yes, John Gottman.
So I was right.
John Gottman.
Is he on the new Pirates?
Is he on the—
1-800-PRAEGER-776. Let's go to your call.
San Antonio, Texas.
And Paul, thank you, Paul. It's a pleasure and honor to speak with you, sir.
I think I have the answer to that question. The answer is the failure to communicate. And by this I mean the unwillingness to listen and/or to voice your opinion. I think you'll find that the difficulties or failure to communicate as a couple are the very foundation of all other problems, whether it be infidelity or public beratement. For example, you know, publicly berating somebody is a sign of your own weakness and that you're upset about something and you need to show your superiority. That's an esteem issue. But I think that a couple that's going through that, if they could communicate properly, that would go away. I lived that example with my parents My wife actually taught me this. I've been with her for 25 years, and communication is the absolute key to a sound relationship. If I shut down like most men do when they get mad, they stop communicating, that's not going to help the argument. If I communicate, things can be resolved, and the same thing applies to my wife.
The problem is, and there's a lot of wisdom to what you say, Paul, the problem is that, for example, there are a lot of men who won't or will stop communicating because they are simply afraid of what the reaction will be.
That's why I say it's the foundation. You have to find out why are you afraid of what the reaction will be. We all know as husbands—
because you'll be, you may be blasted for it, you know. That's, uh, it's, it's—
anyway, your point is well taken. It's—
look, obviously there are going to be a lot of contenders for the title of biggest no-no in a relationship.
I agree. But I'm— and failed to communicate is big. But you can fail to communicate in many areas and still not publicly berate your spouse. We return in a moment on the Male-Female Hour on the Dennis Prager Show.
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Hi everybody. Today's question is, what would you consider the greatest no-no in a relationship? And I offered mine at the very beginning: public humiliation, public berating of your spouse. Significant other, boyfriend, girlfriend, whatever the context of your relationship. I think that it's— it's almost everything else is survivable, and I don't think that that one is. And as I said, when I observe it, I almost lose my mind. Alrighty, 1-800-PRAGER-776, and we go to Huntington Beach, California, and John. Hi, John. Dennis Dennis Prager.
How are you, Dennis?
Good, thanks.
What a pleasure it is to talk to you. Thanks for taking my call.
Thank you for calling.
No problem. Well, I, I think that the— there's a pretty dramatic difference between the thing that will destroy a relationship in a dating sense and a thing that'll destroy a relationship once you're married.
All right, so let's talk once you're married. I, I think that— I don't think there's a difference, but go ahead.
Well, if you marry, you've gone through the filtering process, so you've committed to this one person. It's It's too easy in today's society to just say, "Eh, you know what, I'm done with this. Let's get a divorce. It's not working out. We disagree, whatever. We've had arguments. You've berated me publicly." Whatever the challenge was, there was infidelity, whatever. My parents have been married 47 years. My wife's parents have been married almost 40 years and they, both of them, their description of how they stay together is it's just not an option not to stay together. And, and I, and that's the way I feel about our relationship, and my wife does as well. But it's, it's, if that option is taken out, no matter what kind of fight you have, we fight, obviously. I think most people think that, you know, once you're married, you're going to have like the happily ever after thing going on, and it's, and I just don't think it, I just don't think it works that way. It's work. Wouldn't you agree?
Right.
Well, Well, yes. Well, it's interesting, we did in fact have one male-female hour, John.
I wonder if you heard it.
And it was exactly over this question of should we in fact say to people who are not married, we want you to know that marriage is constant work.
And I thought that that was not a very good sales point for marriage, and it's not a good marriage if it is constant work.
I mean, work is work, and constant work is constant work. If it's constant work, I think it's, it's a troubled marriage, frankly.
And I certainly admire those people for staying together. But let me react to you on, on the, the option issue.
I have an interestingly the opposite view of you. I believe that if, that too often when a spouse is absolutely certain that no matter how he or she treats the other, there will never be a divorce.
They will in fact not do anything important to change and become a better spouse.
It's like not— if it's like knowing— if I knew on my show, Dennis Prager, no matter what you do, if you don't prepare a show, if you just take a lazy way out, if you— whatever it is, you're not going to be fired no matter what. I don't know if I would do as good a job every day. I might only because I have a moral vision of, you know, what a show should be. But still, it's very spurring to all of us in life. If you know you can get fired, you work very hard. If you can't get fired from your spousehood, a lot of people won't work as hard.
Right, but don't you think you would work harder to eliminate a fight that's lasted 2 days?
You know, when you don't have the option to say, "I'm leaving." No, on the contrary, I think that knowing that the other person might leave is often the one thing that will really change conduct. It's a fascinating question.
I thank you for your call.
This is very atypical of the way people talk, especially people called conservative.
Dennis Prager, as I am called, but, uh, and intensely pro-marriage.
But I don't know how anybody could refute the logic. In every area of life, knowing that you could get fired for doing a bad job prevents people from doing a bad job. And the only exception we're told should be marriage. No matter how crappy a job you do, you're hired. I don't see why human nature changes because you're married. Yeah, he's not going to divorce me no matter how I treat him. She's not going to divorce me no matter how I treat her.
Cool.
That's cool. What a deal.
So I don't— I, on the contrary, I think the option of divorce actually helps more marriages than it hurts.
And you see, just— I just want to say here I try to talk without an agenda except telling the truth.
That's my biggest single agenda.
But if your biggest single agenda is a different thing, then you will shape—
and I don't mean John, I mean anybody—
will shape their position according to their agenda, not according to what's true. So a lot of people who are anti-divorce, as they should be—
everybody, anyone who's normal is anti-divorce—
But it's like war. It's very much like war. I don't believe the bumper sticker "war is not the answer," and I don't believe the bumper sticker, as it were—
you don't see one—
"divorce is not the answer." Sometimes divorce is the answer. Sometimes war is the answer. So that's, uh, that's something to, uh, to keep in mind. Don in Encino, California.
Thank you for calling. This is Dennis Prager, the Male-Female Hour.
Good morning, Dennis. As always, great show.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Hey, I was— when I first called, because I love your book Happiness Is a Serious Problem, and this wasn't my choice, but expectations in relationships just kill them. But the one that hit me when you said humiliation was covert humiliation. I had a woman I'm deeply in love with and she'd have a moment and she'd get a posse of her friends together and, and just explode on her emotional perception of what occurred. And there was no defense, no way for me to resolve it. And I'd walk into a room and I'd get these looks from these people like I was Attila the Hun. And it was so destructive, I finally had to tell her, as much as I love you, I need to step away from you. And I, I found it just devastatingly attack on my dignity.
Right.
So this was behind your back, not— it wasn't public humiliation with you present, it was public humiliation with you not present.
Correct. And what compounded is to be exposed to this, and they, and they were lies, and her perception based on her emotional backlash at the moment.
So when you were with her, when you were with her in public, she would treat you respectfully?
Sometimes. Most of the time she would, but then it got towards the end where she'd have—
All right, so, so fair enough.
Yours is a variation on my theme, whether it's with you present or not present. Obviously, when the person's not present, I wouldn't be as much privy to. But so there's another vote for my biggest no-no. We continue on the male-female hour on the Dennis Prager Show.
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And I have posed the question: if you had to isolate the biggest no-no in a relationship, what would it be?
And I offered public berating, public humiliation of your spouse. Your significant other, whatever the state of your relationship might be.
Remember, biggest doesn't mean only. It's not the only no-no.
There's a long list. Actually, I don't know if there's a long list.
And maybe it'll be helpful to actually—
if the list is too long, it might become a little too difficult. For people to live by. A short list though, maybe a 5 no-nos avoided would go a very long way in ensuring a good marriage. Is a subject for another time. All right, we have a dissent here, and let's go to San Antonio, Texas. Norma, thanks for calling, Norma.
Thank you, it is a pleasure to speak with you. It is my honor.
Oh, that's very kind, thanks. And go ahead.
Okay, my biggest belief, uh, with respects to your first acknowledgement of berating each other, which is totally unnecessary— you can call the person to the side and discuss the issue in private— but the thing that I have found that will destroy any relationship is lying. If you cannot trust that other person and have the audacity to lie to you, then how can you trust them in the future?
What do you have?
I'm sure you have something in mind. Give it— give me the example that's in your mind.
Um, in past relationships that I've had, I've had somebody lie to me about either where they've been or what they're doing. And, uh, when I find out the truth later, which always reveals itself. I just— I, uh, I'm single, I'm 58. You're right. I, at that point, have decided that if someone has the audacity to treat you that way and disrespect you on that level, then, um, that I just drop the relationship. There is no second chance.
Wow.
Well, I would, I would give a second chance on, on everything Personally, I would give it on a lie. I would give it on even on the public humiliation. I'd give it on an affair. I think that if one is, is committed to somebody, you have to give them a second chance, or the truth is you do end up single. I mean, and I'm not saying that that's the reason for you at all, but I'm just commenting on that fact. So I'm just answering that part. I do believe that everybody— I mean, murder doesn't deserve a second chance, but by and large, most everything else does in a relationship. We are flawed and we, we want to help others to grow. Now, to the question of which is the bigger no-no, regular lying or regular public humiliation, I, I would have to agree with you. I think that the regular lying is, is, is so destructive as to be up there. The, the only thing that I would ever ask in a relationship where you have one spouse constantly lying or regularly lying is, why is the person doing it? People lie Most people lie for the same exact reason, because if they told the truth, they'd get in trouble. That's the reason a kid lies to his parents. That's the reason a spouse lies to a spouse. That's the reason a suspect lies to the police. If you told the truth, you would get in trouble.
So we have to—
we, that is the one lied to— have to figure out Why does that person fear that they would get in trouble? Now, maybe they have a very good reason to fear it, because if you do it, it would be really bad. But maybe there are other reasons. That's why that's a little more complex than public humiliation, which never has a good reason.
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Dennis Prager Show. Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager. I have been since birth, in fact. It's a joy to be with you. I could, you know, interns are not allowed to shake their head, you know. There's a certain hierarchy of status here, and only nodding is allowed, or, you know, a thumbs up or victory sign. The new generation, it says no respect, the new generation. Hi everybody, thank you for being with me. What is the greatest no-no in a relationship? And from marriage to dating to significant other, whatever it might be. And I offer that it is public berating, public humiliation of your spouse, your significant other. It's not the only no-no, obviously, but it's, it's, it's the biggest one that I can think of. There are other big ones.
Uh, I, it's interesting to me.
I love this. I love, of course I love my work as you well know, and you could, I think it's pretty obvious.
But I also get a very big, uh, I don't know if the word is kick out of, but it's a fascinating part of my work when, when you hear from me, you call up, and then I will tell you, I will comment on something you said and it be the opposite of what you might have expected. And it's happened today twice to two people who began with, you know, a very beautiful statement of, of, of even of affection or respect for me. And I know therefore that when I say something, uh, it may, it may cause you to think, which is all I ask for. And it happened twice today, one on where the one, one gentleman called in and said that the biggest no-no is, is having the option for divorce because people will just take that and it will be destructive.
And I told him that on the contrary, I thought that no option of divorce is far more destructive because when people know they can't be fired from a job, they may not do as good a job.
If you can't be fired as a spouse, Some people will take— a lot of people may take advantage of that fact and not work hard to be the best one possible. It's a job. I wish people looked at being a spouse as they look at their job. They dress up for their job.
They, they are prompt. They are responsible.
They do the best they can every day because they know they can be fired. I think that should be applied. Do you dress up every day for your spouse? You dress up for your job. Now, you may dress up differently, but is that a factor? Do you pay as much attention to excellence as a spouse as you do to excellence at your job?
I think it's a very good way of regarding spousehood.
And the other was this, the last lady who called, and, uh, said that, you know, if a man lies to her, she just doesn't give him a second chance. And I, and I, and I said with all respect, and it is of course all respect, that I think we have to give our spouses a second chance on just about everything. That doesn't mean a 10th chance. I said a second chance.
Okay, I just don't want to let some of these important things that go by And let's go to Alaska and JD in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Hi JD, Dennis Prager.
Hi Dennis. Hey, I agree with most everything you say, hence the reason why I listen to your show.
That's good.
You made the point of giving a second chance and if You are committed to your spouse. They deserve a second chance. And I do agree with that. But you also made the statement about except for murder. Isn't infidelity, in fact, a type of murder of the marriage vows? And also with your statement about the biggest no-no, public humiliation, is that not also go hand in hand if your spouse is going to be— choose that route, are they not being, one, disrespectful to your spouse in public also?
Well, let me take the second one first, uh, only because, because it's, it's clearer in the listener's mind.
The, the— it's funny you should mention that only because I am a big believer in gradations of sin, and as sinful as infidelity is adultery, infidelity, whatever term one wishes to use, and they're both fine with me. As sinful as it is, there are gradations of sin there. For example, a— let's take a man who is unfaithful, who publicly appears with the— his mistress. Uh, that is a level of sin that is twice as bad as the infidelity because he has humiliated his wife.
Yes.
So, but where— but if it's utterly private and no one knows about it, then you can't speak honestly of public humiliation because it hasn't, it hasn't occurred. As for murder, as for murder, it is in your hands, that is the hands of the, uh, of the spouse who has had the infidelity committed against to determine whether or not it is the murder of the marriage. See, murder is objective. Whether or not adultery is murder is subjective. You determine whether it's murder.
Okay.
All right, good. Thank you so, so much. That's very important. And I don't think you should determine it murders the marriage. That's a longstanding position I've had. Both for the man or for the woman. Now obviously, if it's repeated and it's chronic and so on, then the person has essentially said, I'm out of it. I mean, it's already dead. It's not a matter of murder. It's already dead and you just didn't have the funeral. But where there is something like a one-time affair like this, your decision whether or not you wish it to be murder. I don't think it is murder, but the constant or regular beratement publicly— yep, that's, uh, by the way, that will lead to infidelity if you—
if that's what you wish to avoid. We return on the, on the Male-Female Hour.
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Oh no, you say goodbye and I My only regret about this, this past hour, which is coming to a close here so fast—
in fact, an hour that I think was so valuable, we'll have it as an evergreen, one that I would play again on the, on the show.
My only regret—
and this male-female hour has been on the subject of what is the biggest no-no in a relationship, and I said public humiliation of your, of your spouse, your significant other. My one regret is that none of you got in, or, or maybe none of you called on this. I, I, I don't— there's no way for me to know on why does one do it.
If you were one who did it, uh, or does it, do you know that? I mean, this is, this is, this is the, the part of of this subject that I don't have clear, a clear understanding of. Why is it that one, in other words, did one watch one's own parents do this and it's normal?
Is that, is that's, that's I assume a real possibility. Because we, we modeled unfortunately and fortunately, people model often their parents' relationship.
So that's just the norm. Is it you have a tremendous anger at the other person and you want to hurt them? I mean, it may well be conscious. Or is it unconscious and you're not in touch with what you're doing? And if you saw a video, you would, you would just put your head in your hands in shame. I don't know.
I don't know. So maybe you'll send me some emails on this and I'll read them on the air.
If you did do this or you knew someone who did it, and you can answer my question, because it's— it's what I understand, a whole host of sinful acts that people engage in. The public humiliation of one they profess to love. I can't even— I can't even publicly humiliate people I can't stand, as you know, because I have the opportunity to publicly humiliate people every day. Because I have a large audience. But so I don't even understand doing it to enemies, let alone people— the person you're with. There are just these— this is up there with why did God make the mosquito? I just don't get it.
Everybody understands infidelity, can't not— don't have self-control or want to be loved by somebody.
I mean, there are a whole million things, but this one, I have to say, is a puzzle. So if you engage in it, or why don't you just ask, all of you, ask your spouse, do I ever do that to you? I don't want to.
I heard Dennis Prager on the radio on this.
I think he's right.
It's probably the most destructive thing a person could do in a marriage. Honey, do I ever do this to you?
In a very non-defensive, open way.
And I hope that helps, as I do the entire show. This is the Male-Female Hour on the Dennis Prager Show.
Tomorrow on Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager.
I am always on the search. I have about 10 different translations of the Bible in English, and I got to tell you, there are some that are somewhat more accurate at times, and I'm going to talk to you about that.
But nothing approaches the King James Version for the sense of majesty. That the original does have. And so I am terribly interested in this, how it came about.
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