Complaint in Marriage; or, Can We Be Both Critical & Kind?

In this exciting class women learn the basis for a kind, successful marriage, and it’s the most romantic and practical thing for a wife to know: “The purpose of marriage is to like the world,” Eli Siegel explained definitively. The upcoming class will discuss these sentences: “Being able to mingle criticism with compassion is very difficult. One of the reasons husbands and wives can’t talk to each other is that two motives: wanting to be critical and also wanting to be sympathetic or considerate, cannot be managed right: if you’re considerate you’re not critical, and if you’re critical you’re not considerate.  The problem of being both compassionate and critical is an aesthetic problem, a problem that, if solved, will always be like art.”