Couples should have a purified love for one another…
To live harmoniously couples need from the very start to set their love as the foundation of their life, a true genuine love, one that is found in spiritual nobility, in sacrifice, not in fake, worldly and carnal love.
If there is love there is sacrifice, one will always arrive at the standpoint of the other, understand the other, have compassion for the other.
And when we take our neighbor into our suffering heart, then we take Christ Himself into our heart, and He fills us with His ineffable exultation.
Elder Paisios the Athonite