. Would you like to hear some examples? According to the source Psychological Self-Help, "people marry because they are passionately 'in love'" and "married people 'love' each other." This is just a beginning to the myths. Of course, love is important in a marriage, but do most of us marry because we are 'in love' or because we actually 'love' the other person? The myth list continues on and on with such things like, "good sex means good marriage," "most marriages can't survive a period of hate," "married people understand each other without talking," and "good marriages are just 'simply made in heaven' and don't require attention or work" (Psychological Self-Help n.p.). Most of these myths or 'beliefs' may contain some truth, but not for all marriages. According to philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, "It is not the lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages," (Psychological Self-Help n.p.). Could this be true? 'High School Sweethearts' that marry and grow old together seem to think so. Marriage is knowing somebody your whole life, the good and the bad, and still wanting to be with them, completely. Marriage is not dissatisfaction, but overall complete satisfaction, despite the differences. (Lipthrott n.p.; Miles n.p.; Psychological Self-Help n.p.).
             Just as we go through stages of life, within those stages are sub-stages. We grow from infancy to childhood to young adulthood to adult and then finally to an elder. Those sub-stages within these stages are just as important. The sub-stages of a someone's life molds him/her into the person he/she later becomes. Some of u
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