Here is a quote that made me think of the meaning of commitment and responsibility in relationships, regardless of status, married or not, same sex or heterosexual
“The job of the wife is to make a man of the boy she married; it is the job of the husband to make a woman of the girl he married”.
The way to do accomplish this is to behave as if they already are.
This takes me back to the words of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be”.
