“The mutual need to love and be loved by someone of the opposite sex, plus the sometimes desperate desire to be privately and publicly affirmed, has led one-hundred-eleven-million present day American men and women to live together under a marriage contract even though the statistical odds for success are stacked against them” -James Schaller.
There can be no lonelier place than a marriage. There can also be no greater joy than the loving union of two souls. All have an agenda when entering a relationship, and expect that it will produce happiness, pleasure, and affirmation. Unfortunately, relying on others for a sense of well-being and significance always results in anger and jealousy. Marriage has the potential to refine or destroy us. A relationship that has not experienced pain has no depth.