Ideally they should strengthen each other’s positive qualities while supplementing each other’s deficiencies. Sharing of common tastes and thoughts, pursuing similar goals is also important. It is evident that if they have different inner goals and different paths the journey together will not go far even if they stay together for various reasons such as children and society. All these differences however can be overcome if there is the bond of true love.
But since true love is rare it is perhaps best to turn the marriage itself into a means for progress by cultivating patience, mutual respect, sacrifice and to develop certain qualities such as tender care, loyalty, affection that are best developed in close personal association.
