Success in Marriage Redefined
By: Shei Tan
Successful marriages means the working out of a relationship which is increasingly satisfying and worthful to all concerned.
Wrong Reasons
Many couples have clung together long after their marriages have lost their purposes, just because they wanted to show others that they could “succeed.” Others have remained together because of social pressure, religious demands, or just because of their pride. We do not say that they were wrong in so doing. We do say that marriages which can be held together only by such reasons are not successful.
A Larger Purpose
Success in terms of the development of a rich relationship will best result as the outgrowth of larger purposes around which the whole life is organized. The purpose may be social. For centuries there was no divorce in Rome. Why? Because the family did not exist for the satisfaction of the individual. Its purpose was to provide disciplined citizens for the state; citizens who would be its soldiers or the mothers of soldiers.
The Real Secret
The marriage of many couples today is the joining together in some common cause to which both are dedicated. The cause may be foreign missions. It may be world peace. It may be what is the essence of religion at its best; the dedication of self to the creative forces of life. But whatever it is, when this larger purpose is present, the couple has a basis for success!
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