HNSA

What I want to say and would like to see in my future wife is best reflected in the following excerpt from Map of Love by the great novelist Ahdaf Soueif: “Ya Ummi-my mother-- I cannot live my life with a woman who has no key to my mind and does not share my concerns. She cannot - will not - read anything. She shrugs off the grave problems of the day and asks if I think her new tablecloth is pretty. We are living in difficult times and it is not enough for a person to be interested in his home and his job - in his own personal life. I need my partner to be someone to whom I can turn- confident of her sympathy- believing her when she tells me I-m in the wrong- strengthened when she tells me I-m in the right. I want to love- and be loved back - but what I see is not love or companionship but a sort of transacton of convenience santioned by religion and society and I do not want it.” Many thanks- and I look forwards to hearing from you