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This sort of advice puts me in mind of the following (I don’t know why), from Homily XX on Ephesians by +John Chrysostomos. It is advice to a husband:

“And again, never call her simply by her name, but with terms of endearment, with honor, with much love. Honor her, and she will not need honor from others; she will not want the glory that comes from others, if she enjoys that which comes from you. Prefer her before all, on every account, both for her beauty and her discernment, and praise her. You will thus persuade her to give heed to none that are without, but to scorn all the world except yourself.”

My Father of blessed memory gave me a copy of that homily before I married my wife 30 years ago. Its good advice.


5 posted on 11/01/2007 12:49:47 PM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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And again, never call her simply by her name, but with terms of endearment, with honor, with much love.

My father didn't give me a copy of that homily ... he did, however, unfailingly model that advice.

6 posted on 11/01/2007 1:02:42 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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