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I’m reading The Mystery of Marriage, by Mike Mason:

….To be married is not to be taken off the front lines of love, but rather to be plunged into the thick of things. It is to be faced, day in and day out, with the necessity of making over and over again, and at deeper and deeper levels, that same terrifyingly momentous and impossible decision which one could only have made when one was head-over-heels in love and out of one’s mind with trust and faith. This is not resignation to a fate, but the free and spontaneous embracing of a gift, of a challenge and of a destiny.

Is it any wonder if people cannot take the pressure? It is a pressure that can only be handled by love, and in ever-increasing doses. Marriage involves a continuous daily renewal of a decision which, since it is of such a staggering order as to be humanly impossible to make, can only be made through the grace of God.