In the marriage relationship, mutuality involves face-to-face interaction that includes caring, loving, co-operation, empathy, respect, friendship, comfort, help, and communication (both verbal and non-verbal). Mutuality in marriage is being open to understanding the wishes, goals, hopes, and dreams of one another.
If you are in a marriage where mutuality is a value, you both seek what is best for one another. Mutuality is the way you positively relate to one another.
A lack of mutual sharing and mutual decision making can weaken your marriage relationship. If you are focused more on "me" rather than "you and me" or if you don't have a shared vision of your marriage, your relationship will suffer because you won't have the interdependence and connection with one another that mutuality can provide.
Quotes About Mutuality
"Reciprocity, a key component of mutuality, is a universal energy where we give our spark to others and they to us. This exchange is love in action, living in love, right where we are. Nothing is one sided. I respond to you and you to me; together we look up higher than any height we could reach on our own. We know the song of each other's heart, and together we sing our own duet, easing our pain and intensifying our joy."
Source: Alexandra Stoddard, Living in Love, page 247-248.
"All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny."
Source: Martin Luther King, Jr., "The man who was a fool", Strength to Love, page 7.
"Mutuality has become a common way for theologians from a variety of perspectives to talk about a more just love, a love that combines affection and justice."
Source: Herbert Anderson, Edward Foley, Bonnie Miller-McLemore, and Robert Schreiter, Mutuality Matters: Family, Faith, and Just Love, page 4.
"Mutuality is only possible when people can empathetically imagine the world of another without fear of losing their own voice and when they are able to change their mind or be changed by another as a result."
Source: Herbert Anderson, Edward Foley, Bonnie Miller-McLemore, and Robert Schreiter, Mutuality Matters: Family, Faith, and Just Love, page 8.