Key Words: Love, relationships, seeking wholeness, commitments, partnerships, decisions, making clear choices, values, balance, romance, unity, harmony
The Lovers card is all about love and being in sync with someone special. It’s like when you and your partner really understand each other and everything feels just right. This card is about making good choices in your relationships. It’s like finding your perfect match, your soulmate.
Margaret Elaine Dovey met Gough Whitlam at Sydney party in the summer of 1939. World War II had just started. He was 23 and studying law, she was 20 and a social work student. “Quite the most delicious thing I’d ever seen,” she recalled for a biographer years later
Height may have helped, too: with her standing 188cm, Whitlam’s 194cm frame was just what the doctor ordered for the tall young woman who had swum for Australia in the 1938 British Empire Games.
They married in April 1942, six weeks before he was called up by the RAA.
The foundation of every good relationship (lovers, friends, and even business partners) is open and honest communication. In order to keep everything balanced and harmonious, you must be able to express yourself to the other person, be heard and understood, and then take the time to listen to the other party.
Read about Margaret and Gough Whitlams 70 year partnership, which endured through his stormy Prime Ministership and you will not feel so cynical about those ‘happy ever after’ endings in fairy stories.
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