1. Put your mate before your mother, your father, your son and daughter, for your mate is your lifelong companion.
2. Do not abuse your body with excessive food, tobacco, drugs or drink, so that your life may be long and healthy, in the presence of those you love.
3. Do not permit your business or your hobby or your recreation to make you a stranger to your children, for the most precious gift a parent can give his or her family is the gift of time.
4. Do not forget that cleanliness is a virtue.
5. Do not make your mate into a beggar, but willingly share with him or her your worldly goods and possessions.
6. Remember to say, 'I love you.' For even though your love may be a constant, your mate yearns to hear those words from you more than any others. Say it often.
7. Remember always that the approval of your mate is worth more than the admiring glances of a hundred strangers, so remain faithful and loyal to your mate, and forsake all the others.
8. keep your home in good repair, keep your marriage alive, for out of it come the joys of old age, together.
9. forgive with grace. For who among us does not need to be forgiven and often?
10. honor the Lord your God all the days of your life, and your children and grandchildren will grow up and also bless you.
We might need to add commandment no. 11: You shall not hit your mate over the head with these commandments, but the keeping of these will be a willing act of love.
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