Actually a marriage in which no quarreling at all takes place may well be one that is dead or dying from emotional undernourishment. If you care, you probably fight. The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. A confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
All marriages are happy.
It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. Joseph Joubert Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable. The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage. The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.