Love is not all you need in a marriage
   I would like to write about what makes a successful marriage, which is
   marriage looks like close up, which is a different thing. The first
   thing to say about "happy marriages" is that I doubt there are many of
   them. Very roughly, half of all marriages end in divorce.
   remaining marriages, I think, are not about happiness or unhappiness,
   the central problem of marriage, which asks you to spend close company
   does not have a lot of disagreements in a marriage is probably
   I have already had one marriage that did not work out (I hesitate to
   call it a failed marriage because it succeeded for a fair while) and
   beginning. To me, there are three keys to marriage and they are all
   marriages sooner or later.
   marriage will either stand or fall on it. This requires what I call the
   get to. A marriage is a moving process, a living thing, and if it stops
   Complacency and laziness is what kills marriage, far more than lack of
     * Marriage