"I never think of you as incomplete. To me, you are a complete idea."
This was part of a conversation between two students of Christian Science. The one spoken to had never been married. The writer, who heard this remark, wondered why it could not be said of everybody. She thought how very few people, married or single, accept the fact of an individual's completeness for themselves, much less convey that impression to others. Why?
Our human society has so stressed marriage as the necessary factor for a complete and satisfying life that many persons who have never been married, or who have been bereaved of their loved ones, feel they are frustrated, incomplete, limited in their happiness, and denied a satisfactory and complete sense of home and companionship.
