Show wives know yourselves accurate analysis will do much lucli to v overcome difficulty in wedded life SPEAKING on the question of trial marriages a well known writer said there should be no need for trial when two people know their own abilities and have measured themselves accurately two people who understand themselves will never I 1 believe have any difficulty living happily together after marriage that is a new slant on the question of success in marriage supplements ts a woman writer of national fame not know thy husband or wife but know thyself fl 1 and come to think of it most of the discontent and dissatisfaction is in marriage traceable to ideas of ourselves that may be misconceptions no less than our illusions about the other person how many dissatisfaction with their husband has as its source the thought of all they gave up to marry him au all they might have had it if they had married a certain other man how many discontent with the role of wife and mother springs from the thought of how much more fascinating pastimes they might have had it they had followed that adeer how many girls impossible expectations of a full time lover and prince charming originates in an exaggerated notion of their own devastating beauty and charm it if all discontented wives would look deeply unto themselves measure themselves stop fooling themselves many might discover that the other man they might have married is a self nurtured illusion that the career of their dreams is not a soft snap and a joy forever but a grueling exhausting hau sting job which might have worn them out if they had qualified for it which they probably would have been unable to do that they themselves are neither devastating beauties nor always charming but women who are frequently disappointing and dim cult to live with they might dis discover and admit to themselves that they are greatly in debt to their husbands for many things that make life easier and better and more worthwhile that they would not get along so well without them then they might think more of doing their part of trying to make those husbands happy and that effort on the part of one must inevitably evit ably go a long way vay toward a mutually happy and successful marriage 0 bell syndicate service cc |