Partners in a Marriage
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Determining the characteristics of the best wife and best husband can be undertaken within certain parameters but is an impossible task as far as coming to any set and complete statement of traits, behaviors, and attitudes. Each person is an individual, and each marriage is an individual relationship, different from all others even as there may be certain characteristics in common. People need different things from other people and bring different values from within themselves to a relationship. It is indeed wrong to begin to think that there is such a thing as an ideal wife or ideal husband, for we then begin comparing a given instance to that ideal and will always find it wanting. Probably the most important characteristic for a good marriage is for each partner to recognize this reality, that each is an individual, that their relationship is itself unique to them, and so that what fits in their life together and brings a mutual satisfaction is beneficial even if it might not be for someone else. Vicki Iovine in a recent article notes how she has been caught many times measuring her marriage against those of her friends, often finding another coup
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)
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