Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you’ll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

In this line Simon blends practical marital advice with his trademark punchline. The first sentences sound like earnest counsel—care, attention, and making a partner feel valued as the emotional glue of marriage. The final sentence abruptly undercuts the sentiment with a bleakly comic statistic (“two out of every ten”), suggesting that even doing the “right” things offers no guarantee of lasting happiness. The humor depends on deflating romantic certainty and acknowledging how fragile relationships can be. It reads as both affectionate and skeptical: a recognition that marriage requires deliberate kindness, yet remains subject to human limitations and bad odds.