The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy.
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial - or at least less horrible. Prove to me that there is a God and I will really begin to despair.
Try the Lamentations of Jeremiah. They always pick me up.
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.