So, when does a marriage begin? Not when two people fall in love with one another. Love (though it may be an overwhelming inducement, finally, to marry) does not make a marriage. At that point each may feel an intense commitment to the other, but that commitment is not independent of feelings. Rather, it's founded on nothing but feelings— and feelings are as unstable as water, while marriage is the establishment of stability itself in a relationship. Feelings come and go. Marriage is meant to endure in spite of them.
