Problem With Spouse? || Acharya Prashant
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00:00 someone comes and says I am not happy with my spouse. Is this person happy with his car
00:04 or the walls of his house or his job or his slippers or his friends or his parents? Is
00:10 this person happy even with himself? The problem is not the spouse. The problem is the unrealistic
00:15 expectation we cultivate with respect to the institution of marriage. The thing is that
00:21 if you are not joyful within, no man or woman can enter your life and turn you joyful. That's
00:26 not going to happen. But then popular literature and romantic philosophy and the movies, they
00:32 have led us to believe that irrespective of how rotten we are within, some magical person
00:39 will enter our life and totally transform it. Now that cannot happen. Who does not know
00:43 why the wife is not able to give him what he wants comes to us and he says this is my
00:47 condition. I would ask him is there anything that pleases you? Forget the wife. Before
00:52 the wife came to you, you still had already lived for 25-30 years. What was the quality
00:58 of your life then?