Experts share how to keep your marriage at the center of your life, no matter how full it may get.
To Adam it was perfectly clear that a husband and wife are two parts of one neshamah that Hashem separated into two bodies. Hashem then stood Adam and Chavah under a chuppah in Gan Eden and married them saying ‘Now do it again. Recreate that sense of oneness that you experienced in Gan Eden.’ That’s the goal of married life”
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our husband will be your best friend” every kallah hears. “He should come before everything else.” But concepts that seem so obvious during engagement take on levels of complexity in the real world which features confusing overlays of friends family work and OTHER obligations. Experts share how to keep your marriage at the center of your life no matter how full it may get
Avi knew even before he started dating Miriam that she was exceptionally close with her sister Shani. That never bothered him — it was nice for families to be close he thought — and for the first year or two of their marriage he shrugged off the late-night phone calls and incessant barrage of text messages between the two.
But as the years passed his irritation mounted. It bothered him that Shani knew as much about his kids as he did and he was livid when she showed up at the lawyer’s office when they were closing on their new home. The straw that broke the husband’s back was when Miriam met with the caterer for their son’s bar mitzvah with Shani.
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