MEN AND WOMEN
Husband and Wife
The wise husband and wife know that even
the deepest love must have its intervals of non-active expression. The do not fall into a panic because they are
not the object of each other’s ceaseless preoccupation. On the contrary, they realize that a person
who makes constant demands for “proofs” of love is like an insecure child who
clamours endlessly for his mother’s attention.
Those who are confident of their basic love will see to it, instead,
that provision is made for release of the tensions and hostilities inevitable
in every intimate association. ---- Smiley Blanton, M.D.
This is Marriage
The mutual sense of ownership felt by the
normal husband and the normal wife is something unique, something the like of
which cannot be obtained without marriage.
I saw a man and a woman at a sale the other
day; I was too far to hear them, but I could perceive they were having a most
lively argument---perhaps it was only about pillow-cases; but they were
absorbed in themselves; the world did not exist for them.
I thought: “What miraculous exquisite force
is it that brings together that strange, somber, laconic organism in a loose,
black overcoat, and that strange, vivacious, querulous, irrational organism in
fur?”
And when they moved away the most
interesting phenomenon in the universe moved away.----Arnold Bennett
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