To the couples I marry I wish them: ;;My children, I wish you to learn in your
life to always blame both of you together…; because if you believe that only
the other is to blame, there is something wrong between you. Marriage means
accepting the other person as they are because I love them. Marrying means
fighting, doing everything I can to give joy to the one I love. So, then there is a
common path of both, that is, the fact that the other accepts me does not
generate immunity of my ego, since he accepts me as I am. He accepts you
because he loves you, do you love him? Then correct yourself. Then if you
see that something is bothering the other person, correct it. When I hear
people saying, :;I am this or I am that, and I don’t change,; I tell them, ;You are
wrong to get married, because when one loves, one changes.; Not changing
means not loving. The rest is unnecessary.
Metropolitan Paul of Sissani and Siatisti.
Translated by Dr. Nick Stergiou
