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In Jane Austen's novels, the heroines make choices based on affection and respect, [126] not economic reasons. A successful marriage, in her view, balances emotional connection and mutual esteem. [127] While characters may experience love, it is not immediate or based on intense passion but grows through shared understanding and respect.
The Complementarian view of marriage holds that while the husband and wife are of equal worth before God, husbands and wives are given different functions and responsibilities by God that are based on gender, and that male leadership is biblically ordained so that the husband is always the senior authority figure.
In the Eudemian Ethics, he depicts the dynamic between husband and wife as reflective of an aristocracy, even positing aristocracy as the supreme form of governance (7.9.1241b27-39). Similarly, in the Ethics, he uses the mutual governance between spouses as an archetype (8.10.1160b23-25) for political power-sharing in an aristocratic system.
As William Shakespeare famously said, “This above all: to thine own self be true.” And, it can also be said, be true and loyal to those nearest and dearest to you.
The changing concept of family requires a subjective definition of what family entails. There is no contest that the relationship between husband and wife, [2] unmarried (de facto) partners, [3] parents and children, [4] siblings, [5] and 'near relatives' such as between grandparents and grandchildren [6] represents family as required under the right to family life.
“The freedom which so many Americans have fought for and died for comes with responsibilities as well as rights. And among those are love and charity and duty and patriotism.” — Barack Obama
Shalom bayit [1] (Hebrew: שְׁלוֹם בַּיִת, lit. peace of the home) (also sholom bayit or shlom bayit, or (Yiddish) sholom bayis or shlom bayis) is the Jewish religious concept of domestic harmony and good relations between husband and wife.
"It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences ...