When I was young I used to love to see my parents go out on the town. That was in a day when people would still dress up to go out. They would dress up, and he would look so handsome and she so sophisticatedly glamorous to me. They would stop at the door and have our babysitter take a photo of them. I would like to watch them as they went out the door. It was also very reassuring to me that they looked so happy with each other.
Also, the two boys who live with us (my stepson and a distant relative from Siberia who is living with us for two years) both grew up in broken and single-parent homes where there was only one parent or there was an unhappy marriage. We take every opportunity to show appropriate spousal affection in front of them both because it makes us happy, and in the hope that they will be able to translate that into happier marriages for themselves.