The Fourth Commandment by Abd Ru Shin

The Fourth Commandment:

THOU SHALT HONOR FATHER AND MOTHER!

God had this Commandment given to mankind. But it has caused unspeakable anguish of soul. How many a child, how many an adult, has struggled desperately not to offend most grossly against just this Commandment.
How can a child honour the father who degrades himself to the level of a drunkard; or a mother who grievously embitters the hours of the father and the entire household through her caprices, through her unrestrained temper, lack of self-discipline and so much else, making a peaceful atmosphere quite impossible!
Can a child honour its parents when it hears them roundly abusing and deceiving each other, or even coming to blows? How many a conjugal incident has often made the Commandment a torment for the children, rendering it impossible of fulfilment.
In the long run it would indeed be nothing but hypocrisy if a child were to assert that it still honoured a mother when she behaves in a much more friendly way towards strangers than towards her own husband, the child's father. When it observes with her the propensity to superficiality, sees her sink in the most ridiculous vanity to a weak-minded slave of every fashionable craze, which so often can no longer be associated with the concept of earnest, high motherhood, and which robs motherly dignity of all beauty and sublimity ... on what is a child then still to base voluntary reverence for its mother? What indeed lies in the one word: "Mother!" But also what does it demand.
A child that is not yet contaminated as well must unconsciously sense within that a person of mature, serious spirit can never set out to expose her physical body merely for the sake of fashion. How then can the mother remain sacred to the child! Natural reverence impulsively sinks down to the empty form of a habitual duty or, depending upon the upbringing, to selfevident conventional politeness, thus to hypocrisy, which lacks all upward swinging of the soul. Just that upward swinging which holds warm life! Which is indispensable to a child, and accompanies him like a secure shield as he grows up and sets out in life, guarding him against temptations of all kinds, and remaining inwardly a strong tower of refuge for him, whenever doubts of any kind assail him. Right up to old age!
The word "mother" or "father" should at all times call forth a warm, fervent intuitive perception out of which the image arises before the soul in full purity, dignified, warning or assenting, as a guiding star throughout his entire earthly existence!
And what a treasure is now taken from every child when it cannot honour its father or its mother with its whole soul!
Yet the cause of these agonies of soul is again only men's false interpretation of the Commandment. The hitherto-prevailing view was wrong; it limited the meaning and allowed it to become one-sided, whereas surely nothing sent by God can be one-sided.
But it was still more wrong that this Commandment was distorted, in that it was to be improved according to human estimation, made still more explicit by an addition: "Thou shalt honour thy father and thy mother!" In this way it became personal. This was bound to lead to errors; for the Commandment in its right form is only: "Thou shalt honour father and mother!"
Hence it does not refer to particular, specific persons, whose nature cannot be determined and foreseen from the outset. Such a paradox never occurs in the Divine Laws. On no account does God demand that something be honoured which does not also absolutely deserve to be honoured!

Now you can be as stubborn as you want in the hope that someone is going to come to see you raise your children or have children with you.  I suggest that if you want to meet a friend that you have not seen for quite some time, knock on their door.   In the meantime, be good to yourself, your children if you have them and the spouse you envision if not the potential spouse you expect will automatically do, act and say what you desire and hope for culturally.  You could just communicate what you want.

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The Fourth Commandment by Abd Ru Shin