A happy bedtime is the best way to put that honeymoon magic back into your marriage. Many women don’t realize that their bedtime habits can make their husbands lose interest in them.

These are “never do at bedtime” tips for wives who want to keep the magic in their marriage:

1. Get into bed with him: Often the woman who doesn’t have to get up early in the morning will stay up and watch the late news or the late movies. Husbands may see this as an excuse not to have sex.

The solution to the problem is get into bed, anyhow. You can have some time together cuddling and touching. Then you can get up again and do what you wish after your husband falls asleep.

2. Don’t wear moisturizers and mud pack or tweeze your eyebrows and manicure your nails in front of him: No man wants to make love to a greasy face or wants to wait until his partner’s nails are dry.

3. Don’t use the bedroom as an arena to air your complaints:

Don’t use bedtime to voice the things that are bothering you all day. Do use it to talk about the things that draw you closer to each other.

4. Don’t read in bed: Many a man feels neglected by a wife who can’t resist finishing her novel, no matter how many hours she reads in bed. Don’t do it.

5. Don’t talk over the phone when you’re in bed together: Take care of your telephone obligations on your own time, not on your time with your man.

6. Stop buying him pajamas that he refuses to wear: Let him buy his own or not wear them if he does not want to. He will not catch cold.

7. Do not take up three quarters of the bed or most of the bedcovers: Buy a bigger bed or sleep with two blankets.

8. Let him touch you, even if your hair is wet: Try washing it a little earlier. If he doesn’t mind being a little wet, why should you?

9. Don’t keep dirty tissue paper under the pillow: Keep a little plastic pail or a small plastic bag tucked in on your side under the bed for whatever you have to discard during the evening.

10. Don’t wear night clothes that he hates: If your husband doesn’t like you wearing pajamas, get some pretty nighties.

11. Use bed linens that he likes: Many women decorate their bedrooms without consulting their husbands. Discuss your bedroom decor with your man.

12. Never get into bed without being clean: If you like to shower in the morning, make sure that you are still smelling fresh and clean when you go to bed.

13. Don’t tell him to take the garbage out or check the front door just as he is getting into bed: Remind him to do the chores before he gets into bed–or do them yourself.

14. Don’t eat in bed or leave crumbs around: Have your late snack before coming to bed or cut it out.

15. Stop slapping your double chin before switching the light off: The less of your beauty routines you show your husband, the better.

16. Don’t ask him to remember when you were both younger: Wives often pick bedtime to say, `Remember when. This is a bad idea.

17. Don’t comment on how handsome the newscaster on your television set or the leading man in the movie that you are both watching is: Now is the time to concentrate on how terrific your husband is.

18. Be attentive: Give your husband your full attention.