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happy forever chapter two: what is acceptance?

 part eight

What is acceptance?

What does it mean to accept your spouse?
it means that you should consider him a valuable person. it means that you appreciate it and want it as it is, and that it can respect your right to be different from you. It means that it allows you to have your own feelings about various things and situations. it means that you accept your attitudes of the moment, however different they may be from yours.
Should one pretend that their spouse is perfect?
of course not!
acceptance means that one accepts imperfections without making them the target of their displeasure and without trying to change them. Instead, he decides to accept the spouse as he is, including his mistakes. Some believe they have been practicing acceptance, when all they have been doing has been tolerating their spouse.
they have managed to dominate their attitude of criticism, but they have continued with their accusing glances, with their faces, and with their long and mortifying silences. and generally we can all detect when we are being tolerated instead of being fully accepted.
When a spouse accustomed to treat freely manages to restrain himself, he may consider that he has taken the first step towards the full acceptance of others.
As a precondition to the acceptance of other people as they are, we must mention the capacity to accept oneself as one is.
acceptance of oneself allows one to better accept the needs of others and not to feel the impulse to get involved in someone else's life to correct the other's faults. By adopting this attitude of understanding and tolerance, one feels comfortable with himself and lets others live their own lives.
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