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Wedding Creed
Comfort Each Other Provide a refuge and sanctuary for each other from the chill winds of the world. Your marriage is
a hearth, from whence comes the peace, harmony, and warmth of soul and spirit.
Caress As You Would Be Caressed Warm your loved one's body with your healing touch. Remember that as babies can die with
lack of touching, so can marriages wither from lack of closeness.
Be A Friend and Partner Friendship can be a peaceful island, separate and apart, in a world of turmoil and strife. Reflect
upon the tranquility of the many future years you can share with a true friend, and beware of becoming battling enemies under
the same roof.
Be Open With Each Other Bind not yourselves in the secretness that causes suspicion and doubt. Trust and reveal yourselves
to each other, even as the budding rose opens to reveal its fragrance and beauty.
Listen To Each Other And hear not only words, but also the non-language of tone, mood, and expression. Learn to listen
to understand rather than listening to argue.
Respect Each Other's Rights Remember that each is a person of flesh and blood, entitled to his or her own choices and
mistakes. Each owns himself, and has the right to equality.
Allow The Other to Be an Individual Seek not to create for each other a new mold that can only fit with much discomfort
and pain. Accept the other as they are, as you would have yourself accepted.
Give Each Other Approval Remember criticism divides, while compliments encourage confidence in the other. Hasten not
to point out the other's mistakes, for each will soon discover his own.
Cherish Your Union Let no one come between your togetherness, not child, not friend, nor worldly goods. Yet maintain
enough separateness to allow each other his or her own uniqueness.
Love One Another Love is your river of life, your eternal source of recreating yourselves. Above all else love one another.
Copyright ©1971 by Emanual M. and Virginiah Feldman
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