Take Your Love for Your Husband to This New Level

Do you love your man to the level of his most quiet needs? The needs that go unspoken. The needs he may not even recognize for himself.

My dad���s side of the family has a thing for writing corny ���Roses are red, violets are blue��� poems. So when I tell you I���m going to quote to you a line of poetry from Elizabeth Barrett Browning, I hope you are truly impressed at how cultured I have become.

I heard this stanza in a song, and I thought it was the most beautifully written marriage advice I���ve ever heard. Let me give you the first half of Browning���s poem, and you can relish your moment of high culture as well.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

For the ends of being and ideal grace.

I love thee to the level of every day���s

Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.

Although I have an English degree, you do not have to evaluate or write an essay on this poem.

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