Different with everyone. Again respect and compassion is the key to human life. If you can live those two virtues, you have realized the human condition. This is the gateway to not just life but to society. Those who lack it are brutes or sadomasochists.
Make the world a better place than you think it to be and you can hold your head high forever. Enjoy, experience, and you can become what you want. But only through knowing yourself can you become yourself.
I think we are no longer on the concept of open marriage...
And it is interesting that you mentioned the human condition.
I am just about to tackle The Human Condition trilogy again...
A ten hours epic that ranks amongst the most powerful anti-war films ever made.
Yes...
Respect and compassion are important...
And those who embody these two virtues are...
Or destined to be...
Great human beings.
However...
That is the ideal.
Life does not always work that way...
And you also have to account for the darkness...
Within the world...
And within each and everyone of us.
There will be times when it will be hard to stay the path...
Rather by external...
Or internal factors...
And you have to learn to handle things...
In ways that may even be far from the ideals.
I just think you have to be pragmatic in life...
Or it will eat you up.