Recipe for a Successful Marriage

Ingredients:

3 cups - - Tenderness

1 cup - - Commitment

1 cup - - Consideration

1 cup - - Courtesy

2 cups - - Unselfish support

2 cups - - Milk of human kindness

1 gallon - - Faith in God and in each other

Add:

2 cups - - Praise

3 cups - - Cooperation

1 very large pinch of in-laws

1 realistic financial budget

3 T pure extract of "I am sorry"

1 cup - - Contentment

2 cups of open and honest communication

1 cup each:Confidence

Encouragement

Supportive friends

Blindness to each other's faults

Individual interests and hobbies

Mix in:

Several mutual activities and hobbies

Flavor with occasional tokens of your love and a dash of happy memories. Stir well and remove any specks of temper, jealousy, or criticism. Sweeten well with a generous portion of love and keep warm with steady flame of devotion. Never serve with a hot tongue or cold shoulder.

Stand together yet not too near... let there be spaces in your togetherness... fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup... remember, the oak tree and the cypress do not grow in each other's shadow."