There is a beautiful and convincing explanation given by the Chinese Legend…

1. Thumb represents your Parents
2. Second (Index) finger represents your Siblings
3. Middle finger represents your-Self
4. Fourth (Ring) finger represents your Life Partner
5. & the Last (Little) finger represents your children

• Firstly, open your palms (face to face), bend the middle fingers and hold them together – back to back
• Secondly, open and hold the remaining three fingers and the thumb – tip to tip
• Now, try to separate your thumbs (representing the parents)…, they will open, because your parents are not destined to live with you lifelong, and have to leave you sooner or later.
• Please join your thumbs as before and separate your Index fingers (representing siblings)…, they will also open, because your brothers and sisters will have their own families and will have to lead their own separate lives.
• Now join the Index fingers and separate your Little fingers (representing your children)…, they will open too, because the children also will get married and settle down on their own some day.
• Finally, join your Little fingers, and try to separate your Ring fingers (representing your spouse).

  You will be surprised to see that you just CANNOT…, because Husband & Wife have to remain together all their lives – through thick and thin!!

Please try this out…

ISN’T THIS A LOVELY THEORY?

• A faithful and loving wife is the jewel of a marriage.  – Lamar Cole
• A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• A wife is the joy of a man’s heart. – Talmud
• A wife is essential to great longevity,
  she is the receptacle of half a man’s cares,
  and two-thirds of his ill-humor. – Charles Reade
• Let the wife make the husband glad to come home,
  and let him make her sorry to see him leave. – Martin Luther
• Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge. – Bill Cosby
• My best chosen friend, companion, guide,
  to walk through life, linked hand-in-hand,
  two equal, loving friends,
  true husband and true wife. – Sir Charles Gavan Duffy
• My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. – Winston Churchill
• My wife runs the house much better than I could so
  I think she could be a linesman or a referee or
  even a football manager and that’s the truth. – Ian Holloway
• No man succeeds without a good woman behind him.
  Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. – Harold MacMillan
• One should choose a wife with the ears, rather than with the eyes. – French Proverb
• The man who says his wife can’t take a joke,
  forgets that she took him… – Oscar Wilde
• When a man says it’s a silly childish game,
  it’s probably something his wife can beat him at. – Don Epperson
• Wives are young men’s mistresses,
  companions for middle age,
  and old men’s nurse. – Francis Bacon
• There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. – Benjamin Franklin
• A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. – Lana Turner
• Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side. – Zig Ziglar
• A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. – Irish Proverb
• When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• I want to die before my wife, and the reason is this:
  if it is true that when you die, your soul goes up to judgment,
• I don’t want my wife up there ahead of me to tell them things. – Bill Cosby