Pedestals are always lonely.
If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness; later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.
... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.
For the size of it, a check book is about the greatest convenience I know of.
marriage is a great strain upon love.