Today I just want to post a though-provoking quote about marriage as a promise:
“I didn’t marry you because you were perfect. I didn’t even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn’t a house that protected them; and it wasn’t our love that protected them – it was that promise.”
Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth, a play that won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1942
Lovely. I really like this. That is what marriage really is all about, isn’t it?
Indeed. What a great writer who conveyed it perfectly.
I really like this.