The Ideal Wife

Suppose a 16-year-old boy claims that he plans to marry a woman who looks like a Playboy centerfold, a woman who will never age, never gain weight, will always agree with him, and will always put his interests above hers. If I were the boy’s counselor, I would advise him to set his sights lower. Such a conception of marriage is simply too ideal. Where is he going to find a woman who will agree to enter into such a marriage? I know that to accept anything less than the ideal is a violation of “principle”, but a person who adheres to such purity of principle will probably never marry.