Marriage & Aesthetic Realism

Bennett Cooperman

Marriage


	What Is a Husband's Biggest Mistake?

	What's Missing When Husbands Talk with Wives?

Men's Questions

Marriage

Every man, on the day he says "I do," is hoping to have large, lasting feeling for the woman he loves.

Yet why, in the same hour, can a man go from feeling his wife is the sweetest person he knows, to feeling she is the enemy? Why do men feel they need their "space" and that their wives are interferences? And why does love seem to run out as the years go on?

These questions and more Aesthetic Realism answers definitively and so kindly, and I feel very fortunate as a husband of 12 years to be able to study this great education. I learned that the woman we marry and live with every day is, as Eli Siegel once said, a "complete representative in miniature of the flourishing universe"—meaning she's got the whole world in her, things we know and so much we don't know.

Seeing your wife that way, there is a real chance for marriage to be the fresh, deep adventure we hope for.

At left are two seminars I've given with colleagues at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation on topics that concern husbands.