Having lost my wife through cancer, and having married again, this has, I think, changed my view of marriage. I now more deeply appreciate, about my wife, everything she is and everything she does. I am far more disposed to serving her, and I am far more disposed to assuming that she may know better than I do. In short, the value of a wife, and of marriage, has risen for me, very much. I am also more aware of the value of her family and history. OBSERVATION: But this surely has a lot to do with the quality of the person I lost in my first wife -- not to speak of the quality of the person I find now. Of course it has to do with the estimation one puts on what one lost. I don't know what it is that makes people denigrate a wife (or maybe I do).
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