Marriage commits into form whatever love we have for another person, and in so doing, it joins us to the passage of time. It takes our winged feet, holds them on the ground, and binds us at the ankles to the one we have chosen. . . . The traditional Christian wedding vows — "for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health" — spell it out: not everything we sign up for is going to make us happy.
— Roger Housden, Ten Poems To Open Your Heart