Appropriate actions of empathy through an efficient communication talking about what we feel, respecting decisions and supporting each other because we are individuals with different personality. Intolerance comes from the perfectionist or controller who seeks to change the spouse according to your wishes, however the most convenient is the effort to cause a positive change in the marriage. And how to do it? Asking to the Lord guidance and wisdom to do it.
Goddard advises: “When we love our partners the way they are, we don’t care if they change!” What a true and wise reflection because there is no perfect relationship, therefore we must love our partner with everything what we call defects. The best way to learn to be spouses for later to learn to be parents is through compassion, as Gottman suggests: “we can choose understanding, patience, and personal growth… find the glory in our marital story.” Again through free will we have the choice, the responsibility to choose to understand.
For a Functional Family 