Marriage – Partnership

Sometimes Allies Need a Long Term Contract – Lives are uprooted. Possessions are shared. Long term strategy results in map merging to create a new – but more exciting – map.

Someone Needs To Take Your Back – As the great mystic Emmanuel Swedenborg pointed out, we’re only half an angel. You need someone to cover the things you can’t cover. And if you were planning to start a warrior family, you need more than a partner, you need a spouse.

Spouses Teach Honesty – The person who knows you best doesn’t put up with a false front. You literally force each other to get to the root of emotions and behaviors that will open up your psyches not just to each other, but to yourself. The spouse who falls in love with you and forgives you finally allows you to fall in love with and forgive yourself.

Staging, Experimental Life Lab and Boot Camp – we get to try out our ideas on each other. The Beloved Other is a Mirror and a Coach. The purpose of existence, the purpose of YOUR existence – suddenly becomes clear.

Models – “It’s not lack of love but lack of friendship that makes for unhappy marriages” – Friedrich Nietzche

“What counts in making a happy marriage is not compatibility but how you deal with incompatibility” – Leo Tolstoy

“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short” – Andre Maurois

“The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re the right person if you want to be with them all the time” – Julia Child

#Haiku: Marriage: Partnership

Merged.
Eyes when
I can’t see –
Two extra hands;
Relay race –
Inspiration.