To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner. If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions. Anthony Storr A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme.
Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops.
Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day. The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him. The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.