Your relationship with your life partner should be of great friendship,
great trust, and exceptional care. There should be no embarrassment in
showing the deepest levels of compassion for each other. We shouldn't
feel embarrassed in being serviceable to
each other. There should be no shame in cooking, cleaning, doing your
partner's laundry, opening the door, taking off shoes, massaging and
doing all sorts of kind acts. We shouldn't have to worry about our egos.
We should make each other comfortable to the level where there is no
hesitation to express our deepest forms of love. To the level that the
husband is respected as a King for his service towards his wife, and the
wife is treated like a Queen for her service to her husband. And there
is an atmosphere of giving instead of expecting. No one person should
take the other's humility as their weakness or abuse them for it. It
takes two to preserve the peace and tranquillity in a marriage. And all
the above requires love and mercy!
I am glad to be married to my best friend. The best friendship is that which is between a husband and wife! If your
husband/wife is not your best friend then the marriage is most likely
to suffer.Love your spouse by loving his/her choices and emotions. Loving a person means respecting his/her ego.
One of the greatest means of attaining happiness in marriage is
kindness. Kindness is something easy: a cheerful face and a gentle word.
So try to adopt this kindness towards your husband / wife – until it
becomes ingrained in you – and you will win his/her heart and make
him/her be affectionate and compassionate towards you.
