But the journey is greatly improved when you have a good and faithful companion with you. Together you help each other over the rough spots, you rejoice at the heights you reach, you share the sunshine and the storms, and you laugh at your silly mistakes. In the beginning God created human beings male and female, that they might have married companionship on their journey in life. And so it has been throughout the ages that a man and a woman may find themselves in a relationship leading to marriage, and in marriage find themselves partners in the mountainous journey of life. So also marriage partners always help each other in their journey through life together.
Marriage is a risky business.
Yet without risk there is no beauty or strength or goodness. That is neither broadly human nor is it particularly commendable, Sittler said. It's just mutual opportunism, one of the higher forms of self satisfaction. What is challenging and therefore fulfilling is when you understand marriage as the mutual acceptance of a crazy challenge to accomplish the seemingly impossible. Marriage requires fidelity, the intention to do what you say you will do.