A wife, if she is very generous, may allow that her
husband lives up to perhaps eighty percent of her expectations. There is always
the other twenty percent that she would like to change, and she may chip away at
it for the whole of their married life without reducing it by very much. She
may, on the other hand, simply decide to enjoy the eighty percent, and both of
them will be happy.
(Elizabeth Elliot, as quoted in Feminine Appeal, Mahoney,
p 41)
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Yep, and it can be said that if we switch the words, "husband" and "wife" around, it remains true.
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