Savoir gameín

Marriage … an institution that completes you or a social tripod that when you experience it you discover that it was a trap with bad messes? “The happiest moment of my life was when Tassos proposed to me” and another happiest moment of my life: “when I got my divorce from Tassos, after a few years …” If together with marriage licenses, each couple also got a list of wedding side effects, how many would eventually get married?

In this book you find the experiences of people whose marriage has taught its various aspects, either good or bad, and the reader is called upon to draw his own conclusions. Thousands of hours of psychotherapy with people who asked the Social Psychiatrist for help and support and others, confirmation of their feelings that reached them in despair.

“Which of the people regret in life?” a question posed to Socrates, the wisest of the wise – and his answer: “The old men,” that is, those who are married. It is a well-known analogy of marriage to a fortress, that those outside are asking and dreaming to go inside and those inside are dreaming and desperately asking to go out.

Apart from the murmurs and complaints, the wish that Odysseus gives to Nafsika never ceases to be valid, thanking her for her help and in what she provided him: “and may the gods give you what your soul wants .. .: A man and a house and a beautiful harmony to give. ‘That he is not in life, brighter happiness, than if the house is ruled by a single opinion, the man and his partner … “