Romanticism is deeply hopeful

• Romanticism tells us that a long-term marriage can have all the excitement of a love affair.
• Romanticism proposed that true love must mean an end to all loneliness.
• Romanticism believed that choosing a partner should be about letting oneself be guided by feelings, rather than...

We usually consider moving into marriage in an attempt to preserve and prolong the happy romantic feelings that characterize the early stages of almost all relationships.
But in most cases, there is no real connection between those feelings and the institution of marriage: marriage tends to mo...

We mistakenly think marriage is just an event.

We have to understand that marriage is a process, filled with love, ups and downs, effort and struggle. It is not that we get married, throw a few parties and start to reap the 'rewards' of marriage, going about on our other interests....