The Seven Principles of Successful Marriage Relationships

The Seers Thought for the Day

1. Successful relationships are built on successful solitude.
2. Ignoring another’s folly can produce shock and disillusionment. Loving another in the full awareness of their foibles, is a strong and stable relationship.
3. Sex as a means of securing and strengthening a relationship, is not a reliable bond for a couple. Intimacy through an open heart is more reliable.
4. Seeking uniformity with your partner makes marriage partners predictable. Life seeks to disrupt predictability — build your own interests and adventures, that the adventurer in your partner may discover you with delight.
5. During the vulnerable times experienced by all, when one’s partner is confronted with life’s challenges, failures or humiliations, bolstering your partner’s faith in him- or herself is the greatest gift you can give.
6. Establish routines the two of you can share (routines celebrate and nurture). Stifling growth by repeating the familiar, habitual habits as a means of security, is a rut (ruts create boredom and are dull and unproductive ways of stifling growth).
7. To manage and organize your partnership in an orderly way, creates windows of opportunity for spontaneity. Chaotic and disorderly environments are not spontaneous, but rather they are inconvenient, time-consuming and create an unsupportive living environment. Take time to coordinate your day. May your marriage not be a stumbling block in your life, but a stairway to creating heaven on Earth.