Privacy And Intimacy Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Husband and wife are two entities,
With focus on their joint life and children.
They are more than friends, and more than partners.
Privacy and intimacy must balance.

Privacy will compliment intimacy.
Having separate pools and bank accounts
With separate channels for outside contacts
Will give them freedom for intimacy.

Snooping and prying on each other,
From insecure or possessive nature,
Is invasion of privacy and mistrust.
It will dampen the spirit of intimacy.

Husband and wife must believe each other
To the extent that each values unity,
And that their individual interests
Do not eat into their common interests.
14.06.2016