You have to continue to grow and evolve as individuals in order for your marriage to evolve. It takes two pillars to support a structure. If those two pillars become one, you have a structure that teeters.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Even though you're married, you're still individuals. You still have to grow and nurture your individuality.
The way I grew up, when you're married, you have to stay married together.
I am a very basic person. I still believe marriage happens only once, and you have to sustain it.
But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together.
In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.
Marriage is built around complementarity of the sexes, and therefore the institution of marriage is a support for stable families and societies.
I'm not a great believer in marriages as an institution, or even in very long term relationships. I'm not sure we're built that way.
I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
Marriage should be reinforced, not redefined.