00:00Are there any ingredients of happiness that can lead to a lasting marriage that works for everyone?
00:07Is there anything in life that one is happy with?
00:10When someone comes and says, I'm not happy with my spouse,
00:12is this person happy with his car or the walls of his house or his job or his slippers or
00:18his friends or his parents?
00:20Is this person happy even with himself?
00:22The problem is not the spouse.
00:23The problem is the unrealistic expectation we cultivate with respect to the institution of marriage.
00:30Before the wife came to you, you still had already lived for 25-30 years.
00:36What was the quality of your life then?
00:38Were you better off?
00:39All right, you want to be divorced.
00:40Go ahead.
00:41Now, tell me after the divorce, are you contended?
00:44You're still not contended.
00:45You are not contended before the marriage.
00:47You are not happy after the marriage.
00:48In between, there is this mirage called marriage.
00:52How is this going to succeed?
00:54So, no marriage can actually, you see, ever succeed.
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