You are to be highly commended for having formulated this set of principles to live by in your marriage. If more people followed them, there would be far fewer divorces. You combine idealism and pragmatism in an excellent combination. I suppose I am so impresssed by your article because the two main characters of my recently published novel, “Getting Enough,” figure your principles out for themselves after 26 years of a disastrous relationship. Once they stop typecasting one another as despicable creeps and sexual failures, they discover to their astonishment that they are both vulnerable human beings in desperate need of tenderness and compassion. When that happens, they actually fall in love! For more information, kindly access this website: http://www.strategicbookpublishing.com/GettingEnough.html.
Keep up the good work
Leonard Rosmarin