"Marriage is like a van full of sick people" - "Marriage is like the Ghostbusters" - and "Marriage is like water running through your hand(s)."
This article, on what marriage is and what it is not, comes from the blog of psychologist Kelly Flanagan. Some quotes from it:
"Marriage is not an experience—it is the thing that carries us through every experience, like a minivan transporting us home, bearing all the conflict and grief and sorrow and pain of life."
"When we arrange our lives around comfort, we experience only a fraction of life, and then we wonder why we feel bored and unchallenged and why our stories feel meaningless . . We find our purpose and our direction in relation to [discomfort], by approaching it and figuring out how we want to redeem it."
In marriage, you partner with your spouse to create goodness and beauty out of the stuff of your life.
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