| Comfort Each Other |
Provide a refuge and sanctuary for each other from the chill winds of the world. Your marriage is a hearth, from whence comes the peace, harmony, and warmth of soul and spirit. |
| Caress As You Would Be Caressed |
Warm your loved one's body with your healing touch. Remember that as babies can die with lack of touching, so can marriages wither from lack of closeness. |
| Be A Friend and Partner |
Friendship can be a peaceful island, separate and apart, in a world of turmoil and strife. Reflect upon the tranquility of the many future years you can share with a true friend, and beware of becoming battling enemies under the same roof. |
| Be Open With Each Other |
Bind not yourselves in the secretness that causes suspicion and doubt. Trust and reveal yourselves to each other, even as the budding rose opens to reveal its fragrance and beauty. |
| Listen To Each Other |
And hear not only words, but also the non-language of tone, mood, and expression. Learn to listen to understand rather than listening to argue. |
| Respect Each Other's Rights |
Remember that each is a person of flesh and blood, entitled to his or her own choices and mistakes. Each owns himself, and has the right to equality. |
| Allow The Other to Be an Individual |
Seek not to create for each other a new mold that can only fit with much discomfort and pain. Accept the other as they are, as you would have yourself accepted. |
| Give Each Other Approval |
Remember criticism divides, while compliments encourage confidence in the other. Hasten not to point out the other's mistakes, for each will soon discover his own. |
| Cherish Your Union |
Let no one come between your togetherness, not child, not friend, nor worldly goods. Yet maintain enough separateness to allow each other his or her own uniqueness. |
| Love One Another |
Love is your river of life, your eternal source of recreating yourselves. Above all else love one another. |
