Cornerstones of Marriage

"Without true Love, no marriage can be fully experienced."

"Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, it is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails." (1 Cor 13: 5-8)

Mutual Respect is an essential ingredient of any successful marriage.

Also, love and respect go hand in hand, or one comes with the other, as St Paul explicitly suggests:

Wives and Husbands: "Submit yourselves to one another because of your reverence for Christ. Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. ..."
Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it. ... Men ought to love their wives just as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself." (Eph 5: 21-28)

"Every husband must love his wife as himself, and every wife must respect her husband." (Eph 5: 33)

When there is love and respect, there comes Trust within the couple, and trust is no less important than any of the other essentials of a successful marriage.

With all the three intact, there follow Faithfulness, Commitment, and Sacrifice.

"It is not good for the man to live alone. I will make a suitable companion to help him." (Gen 2:18) Every special marriage is built on a unique Friendship, the couple being the two special friends.

"Marriage is sex-oriented. Sex should not be the only important thing, but should be one of the most important things of marriage," so said a senior member of the Syro-Malabar clergy, six months before he was ordained Bishop of a Syro-Malabar diocese in Kerala in 2004. Relationship, no matter it be called as Romance or Intimacy or whatever, is key to the success of every marriage.

Responsibility is never to be discounted, and is accomplished with God's blessings by making Him the centre.

Under this category namely Cornerstones of Marriage, SyroMalabar.com is featuring the foundations or essential building blocks of every successful marriage.

Families are the building blocks of society. Marriages lead to families. Thus, marriage is what creates society. Survival of society is dependent on marriage; so is the creation of a healthy future generation.

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