My wife loves to cook. When we were first married, she tried lots of new recipes on me to see what I liked. She'd cook a meal and ask me to rate it out of ten, which she'd then note beside the recipe in her cookbook. A rating of one meant it was awful and 10 meant it was the best I'd ever eaten. It would have worked well, except that I didn't want to hurt her feelings. So I never rated anything lower than a six. It didn't take her long to realize what was going on. She quickly figured out that a 10 meant I thought the meal was great, but an eight meant it was just OK. A six meant I didn't like it at all. The problem is that she wanted my honest opinion, so not telling her how I really felt made things harder between us. People often say that honesty is the best policy, and that's certainly true in marriage. Here are 5 times to practice honesty in marriage. 1. Tell her when you're struggling. It's more than just a cliché that men don't like to ta...