Don’t unnecessarily hassle your spouse. He or she is probably as clueless as you are. He needs your support. She needs your light. Take care of yourself, and then you will be able to take care of everybody.
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Acharya Prashant: There are many questions on marriage. I’ll take them as one. One of the questions says, “Marriage comes with a sweet promise to eliminate loneliness, but seems to strengthen it more. It’s definitely a mirror showing that we don’t know how to communicate, love, or even live. For there is no understanding of oneself in the first place.” The question is asking, “What is it to be intimate in reality?”
Then there is another question that says, “Marriage has become a battlefield; more of insecurity, the pretension of love, and an arrangement for permanent prostitution. Now, this is the fact and we are in the middle of this situation. I can’t get out of it, even if I understand this mess. And with children and their education in progress, if I leave this in the middle, it will be like an escape leaving the battlefield in the middle of a war—a hypocrisy. How does one deal with such a situation?”
Another one says “The ancient sages made marriage compulsory for mankind so as to be a creator. They said that we must find the best spouse for the sake of society. Were they misguiding us? Similarly, there are the sixteen Samskaars (virtues), are they useless in the modern era? Or, are they basics of a successful life?”
