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g'day Grom

as Western Buddhists, in a scholarly age, we cannot avoid reading about the Four Noble Truths. however, in Buddha's time, the Four Noble Truths were not generally instructed to laypeople. the Four Noble Truths are lokuttara (transcendent) dhamma, which Buddha primarily taught to those who renounced the household life, as set forth at the very beginning of his 1st sermon:

Bhikkhus, these two extremes ought not to be cultivated by one gone forth from the house-life. What are the two? There is devotion to indulgence of pleasure in the objects of sensual desire; and there is devotion to self-torment.

Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta: Setting Rolling the Wheel of Truth to laypeople, Buddha taught as follows:

If both husband & wife want to see one another not only in the present life but also in the life to come, they should be in tune [with each other] in conviction, in tune in virtue, in tune in generosity and in tune in wisdom. Then they will see one another not only in the present life but also in the life to come.

Husband & wife, both of them
having conviction,
being responsive,
being restrained,
living by the Dhamma,
addressing each other
with loving words:
they benefit in manifold ways.
To them comes bliss.
Their enemies are dejected
when both are in tune in virtue.
Having followed the Dhamma here in this world,
both in tune in precepts & practices,
they delight in the world of the devas,
enjoying the pleasures they desire.

Samajivina Sutta: Living in Tune kind regards