Website owner: James Miller
What are the most important things in life?
- religion; faith in God; faith in a God that we can turn
to for help in our troubles (someone that will understand
and help us, someone who loves us)
- those we are closest to, those we share life with, those
we are bound together with in this life
Marriage. In marriage you adjust to the other person in a
myriad of ways. You adjust to his idiosyncrasies, weaknesses
and faults. You learn to live with him. You each adjust to
the other and you work harmoniously together as a team.
Without realizing it an emotional bond builds up with the
years. You don't even realize it is there the most of the
time. But when you are faced with a real threat that you may
lose that person (as by death or losing him to another lover)
you realize how vitally important he is to you, how deeply
and intricately your lives are bound together. You work
together, you complement each other; each is dependent on the
other, each needs the other. The emotional and spiritual
ties that build up during a marriage are sacred; each has
given the other part of themselves.
The loss of one we deeply love. A gut-wrenching experience.
Two people so intricately bound together that the death of one
destroys the other also. Deep distress, suffering, sorrow.
Loss of interest in life, loss of reason for existence.
Aug 1991
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