The Importance of Maintaining a Healthy Marital Relationship

 I have witnessed  a couple married for 40 over years and they seem to maintain an atmosphere of minimum interaction and a very detached attitude towards each other. The husband has been a leftist loner since his student days and it was a marriage sout of convenience rather than comradeship because the wife as his student who naturally admired him because of his high education and status . Unfortunately she has little love for his leftist thinking and they nearly broke off if not for the three children. Finally they come to a compromise by which he would continue his pursuit in writing leftist articles and books and she would go to the church and is an active member of the church. Because of this awkward relationship, their children are influenced to such an extent that none of them get married even if the eldest of them is long past 40. This is a bad example of a family and they could not help it much because of their difference in religious belief and outlook on life. Anyway, I think in all marriages, the couples should as much as possible settle their differences in their political ideas and outlook on life. It is easier said than done but I think apart from the example above ,  there are also a lot of couples with just very  trifling differences which can be solved by mutual understanding and give and take attitude. It is more on the side of husband to take the initiative and effort to cultivate a healthy and harmonious family environment for their own good. Wives are usually passive and submissive but could be with very strong opinion in sensitive issue like womanizing in which case of course it is the duty of husband to take a correct stand and leave no room to doubt.. If we have the right attitude in life naturally we would not find it hard to convince the other halves of our sincerity and faithfulness. Then we will find that wives are not so difficult to please and the older they grow the more wonderful they will be!