Let's look at a beautiful analogy between the elements of a successful marriage...
There are 4 wheels on which chariot of marriage runs...
Acceptance, Care, Understanding, and Friendship.
Acceptance: Accepting the other person as he/she is
Care: Caring for your better half on a physical, psychological and emotional level
Understanding: Understanding another person's strengths and weaknesses
Friendship: Being life long friends of each other
When all the four moves in perfect unison, the chariot moves forward without stalling. Love is the ingredient to oil the wheel which reduces the friction and helps the chariot run!
Marriage means giving up your independence while choosing the path of interdependence. They say two become one in marriage. However, two people live as separate entities with different thoughts, perspectives, habits, behaviors. One thing that binds two people together is the feeling that you belong to each other.
There are seven steps in marriage on which two souls walk together(सप्तपदी):
Respect, Commitment, Love, Share, Care, Interdependence, Submission
How does marriage work?
When there is a strong bond between these elements of a successful marriage...
At last, marriage works when you work together, have fun together, support each other, share household responsibilities and wish for the overall well being of each other every day!
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Hope these elements of marriage help you to have blissful married life!
