Perfect Love and Perfect Faith – How to have a Happy Marriage

Every woman, on their wedding day, should be positively and completely enshrouded in an environment of love and perfect trust; the ultimate holiness of the relationship is the single thing which, at the time, should possess her soul.

Girls shouldn’t “obey” men any more than men should obey girls. There are 6 requirements in a happy marriage: the first is Faith, and the other five are Confidence. Nothing so compliments a person as for a girl to trust in him; nothing so pleases a lady as for a person to put confidence in her. Obey? God help me! Yes, if I loved a girl, my entire deepest wish is usually to obey her slightest wish. And how could I adore her unless I had perfect confidence that she would only aim to what was wonderful, true and right? And to allow her to realize this ideal, her wish is to me a holy command; and her disposition of mind towards me I know would be the same. And the sole contest between us would be as to who could love the most; and the need to obey would be the one controlling impulse of our lives. We gain liberty by giving it, and he who bestows faith gets it back with interest.

To bargain and outline in love is to lose. Perfect faith implies perfect love; and perfect love casteth out fear. It is always the dread of imposition, and a slinking intention to rule, that causes the girl to barter over a word it is lack of love, a limitation, a disability. The cost of an ideal love is a comprehensive and complete surrender.

To give a person something for nothing has a tendency to make the individual discontented with himself. Your enemies are the ones you have helped. And when an individual is discontented with himself he’s discontented with the entire world and with you. A man’s quarrel with the world is only a quarrel with himself. But so robust is this desire to lay blame somewhere else and take credit to ourselves, that when we are sad we are saying it’s the fault of this lady or that man. Particularly do ladies attribute their unhappiness to That Man. And regularly the difficulty is he has given her too much for nothing. This truth is a correctable, back-action one, well worn by use, working all ways as the case might be. That sort of tenderness which drives sharpened bargains and makes demands, gets a check on the bank in which there isn’t any balance. There is little so costly as something that you get for nothing.