Consider these aspects:
● The bedrock of marriage – You can generally recognize a good marriage, but it is hard to tie down the details. Generally it is made up of quiet, contented days succeeding one another for all the time allowed. But it need not be so. A good marriage can last through tempests. Consider the marriage of the playwright Enid Bagnold and Sir Rodwrick Jones, chief of Reuters: it was a continual tumult, each had several liaisons, yet they both considered their marriage the greatest success. On their 25th anniversary she wrote: “Oh, my beloved companion ………what fun we have had ……….I couldn’t live without you”. Behind the curtains of their life were “the entrancing gossip of bedroom life, the crackles of spirited annoyance, the candlelit battleground, the truces, the fun, the rage, the love”. But no description or explanation can easily capture the essence of a good marriage.