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Unit 10 Marriage. The secret of marriage is to work hard and love each other. Love. Love.
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Unit 10 Marriage • The secret of marriage is to work hard and love each other. Love
Love • Love is an art of understanding. Deep and mutual understanding is the fertile soil for the evergreen tree of love. As love has many levels of intensity understanding also has its levels of depth. The knowledge of one’s appearance, hobby and taste is only the surface. To know one’s ability and strong points is the medium level. It is knowledge of the weaknesses of one’s beloved that is the deepest level because the weaknesses of person, unlike mistakes that can be overcome, usually accompany him or her throughout life. Only by fully realizing and accepting this fact can a person love truly .
Love • Youth is always endowed with love; however, love is not necessarily patent to youngsters only. Youth, beauty, sexual appeal and romance will vanish as time passes. But in the mind’s eye of a devoted lover, his spouse is, though old and ailing like a candle guttering burning weakly) in wind, still lovely and full of vitality energy). So eternal love is like a never dried-up river which rises from a couple of springs. • Love is the unity of a male and female both physically and spiritually. Although this world can be defined in many ways, true love can not happen, develop and last without sincerity, understanding and trials.
Ten Ways to keep love alive • Share values • Friendship • 3.Intimacy • 4. Fighting for fair • 5. Tolerance • 6. Passion • 7. Equality • 8. Trust • 9. Commitment • 10. Understanding
Part 1 • Good wishing to bride and bridegroom
Part 2 • Wedding: bride and bridegroom
Part 3 • From lovers to couples.
Part 4 • Happy family life
Part 5 • Love note from husband
Wedding customs • Wedding ceremony • The wedding ring----the symbol of eternity
Honeymoon • It was an ancient custom for a newly married couple to drink a liquid mixture containing honey on each of the first 30 days of the marriage.
Legal procedures • There may be regulations concerning the ages at which a couple may marry, the procedures for a license to marry, the recording of the marriage, or the type of ceremony.
Marriage rites • Protestant • Roman Catholic • Jewish • Eastern Orthodox