Equality in Marriage

"Listen: when a baby cries in the middle of the night, do the parents bicker and neglect their baby's needs? Not if they love it. Or do they blame one another because the baby is a baby, helpless, in need of human care? Of course not. Instead, they willingly adjust their lives in order to nurse the infant; they adjust without accusations because the baby's needs are no one's fault, and their dear one is more important to them than their own desires. Each trust the love that the partner also has for this child. They adjust their lives, feeling in no way oppressed by such neccesity."


Walter Wangerin, Jr. As for Me and My House, p. 46, Th. Nelson (1990).

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