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Enrich Your Marriage

by Swami Sangeeth

116 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #03-1238; ISBN 1-4120-0870-0; US$14.95, C$19.00, EUR12.35, £8.56

"Every married couple, and those contemplating marriage, as well as counselors will find this book useful." Bishop Alvaro Corrada, S.J. Bishop of Tyler, Texas, USA

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About the Book The book is divided into three different parts. Part 1 is an introduction and a brief history of marriage from the Old Testament until today. Part II covers the essential components of a relationship that are discussed in this part are Self Concept, Love?, Communication, Perception, Need and Motivation, Values, Recognize your Spouse, Games Couples Play, Conflict Resolution, Natural Family Planning. This part ends with a marriage evaluation that assists in determining how successful a marriage is. Part III touches on the complicated area of psychiatry. It explains how psychiatric problems can be understood and treated in married life and thus makes it more interesting and meaningful.

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About the Author Swami Sangeeth known as Rev. Alphonse Antonymuthu, is a Catholic Priest in one of the dioceses of South India. He holds a Ph.D in Clinical Counseling Psychology and has been a visiting professor in some major seminaries in India. He is the director of Institute for Family Counseling and Research (IFCR) and conducts training programs for youth animators and family counselors for the past ten years. He has written more than twenty books in different topics and has released two audio cassettes on inferiority complex and guilt complex in his native language, Tamil. His first English book Developing the Adolescent Personality was published by St.Pauls, Better Yourself, Mumbai, India. His second book Pastoral Counseling Psychology was published by Nalam Veliyeedu, Thucklay, India. This book Enrich Your Marriage is an American publication by Trafford.

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Excerpts

Let's face the reality. Divorce rate is alarming, 75% to 80% of the divorced remarry in the United States. Divorce no longer shocks the society. Practically most of the studies on divorce take for granted that the growing divorce trend is part of the "sexual revolution", a psychic symptom of the decay of the family. If this continues, there is a danger that the family is literally becoming extinct. Until the middle of the nineteenth century in England and America, grounds of divorce were adultery and cruelty. Liberalization of the laws in the mid-nineteenth century, divorce has become easier to obtain. Our present concern about divorce springs from 'break down' of marriage and the hypocrisy surrounding divorce. The society seems to believe that marriage is a completely private mater and can be terminated by mutual consent, which might or might not accelerate the "decline of the family". If marriage does not survive, the future of the family and society is at risk. The secular thinking of throwing away, for any silly reason, the conscious commitment one has given during marriage ceremony, has not understood the sacredness of marriage. I firmly believe the only way to regain societal order is to re-education the youth and couples about the sacredness of a marital relationship. It is easy to marry, but difficult to live together. A great responsibility indeed! Living together can be made easy only when we learn to communicate with each other in an effective way. Love is expressed and experienced through communication. Socrates was a great philosopher. His marriage, however, was a failure. His wife, Xanthippe was so cruel to him. She once poured a whole kettle of boiling water on his head and burnt half his face. It is said that he remained his whole life with a burnt face. Knowing all this a young man came to Socrates for advice. He asked him, "I am thinking of getting married, and because I have always found your advice significant I have come to ask you. What do you suggest? Should I marry or not." Socrates said, "You should marry, you ought to marry." The young man said, "I am more puzzled than I was before I came to you. You are saying I ought to get married? For what reasons?" If you get a good wife you will live a contented life, and if you get a wife like mine you will become a great philosopher!" said Socrates. Marriage is socially recognized institution to establish a family which is the basic social until. Marriage has taken a very long evolutionary process to reach today's state. All religions, cultures and literatures regard marriage as a sacred union of man and woman. Christianity speaks of marriage as a convenantal relationship and it is a sacrament. It is similar to the union of CHrist and the Church. The consent and promise given during marriage celebration, "I take you to be me wife (husband). I promise to be true to you in good times and the bad, in sickness and health. I will love you an honor you all the days of my life," indicate that the unity and indisolvability of marriage. Marriage is a call, sacred call that leads one to a spiritual well being. Realizing the sacredness of marriage and making it meaningful and enjoyable depend much on the understanding of human relationships. Life is an opportunity to celebrate and therefore do it together always. Alone there is no celebration!

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