marriage quote

[jenk]

From William Raspberry's column this week:

We have tried to sell our children on the pragmatics — particularly the economics — of marriage, and it shocks us when they start weighing marriage in the way they might weigh a career change or a job relocation. Whatever works, and as long as we love ...

Maybe [Dietrich] Bonhoeffer had it right — that it isn't love that sustains marriage, but marriage that sustains love.