ity. However, in order to achieve the spiritual and mental growth that promotes such a personality, Peck (2003) argues that we must confront some painful recognitions, ôDelaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.ö
The more we grow spiritually and mentally, the more we come to see love as ôthe will to extend oneÆs self for the purpose of nurturing oneÆs own or anotherÆs spiritual growthö (Peck 2003). Most people fall in love or seek love as a means of fulfilling their own needs. Often they make another responsible for their own mistakes or b
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