Role of the Wife

Dr Dean Ornish, MD, the founder and president of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute in California, and author of six best-selling books, says that men who feel that their wives love them are much more likely to reverse heart disease than those who feel the opposite. The home can be the cause for disease. It can also be the safe sanctuary for healing and reversal of disease. Everyone talks of quality time nowadays. Once, a girl from Kuala Lumpur told me about her exciting marriage to a man from LA. ‘We have a really good time on holidays,’ she said. Another bright young yuppie from a major bank said her husband worked for the same bank in another city. ‘We meet on weekends and feel just like we did when we were dating!’ she said her eyes shining. Is this looked forward-to weekend the alternative to the solid permanence and possible boredom of a traditional marriage? Are the constant travels away from each other the basis for the ‘open birdcage’ marriage to which the bird always returns from its travels? Today, when we look back, we believe that contentment is happiness