Interesting Quotation...

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. - Joseph Barth.

Not sure I have a lot to say about it right now, but it's one of the few quotations I've seen that talks about marriage as a serious responsibility. There are plenty of people who talk about the joining of two people and the love and such, describing one of the betrothed as a perfumed garden or talking about how they don't talk to each other's ears, but to each other's souls or hearts. And it's not that I begrudge anyone their romantic hyperbole, it just seems to me that a lot of being married (I like speaking as an expert when I've been married negative 5 days) is done when you're not talking to the other persons personified body parts, but to another person, who you need to reason with. Not sweet talk. And I guess what I like about Mr. Barth's quotation is it acknowledges that talking to another person, being their partner, is a hard endeavor. (At least that's how I take it.) It's not a romantic thought, I guess. But when talking hearts and fair tales help me figure out the bigger problems in my life, when they coaxe me through hard times, then maybe I'll feel a little less scornful of them.

(Quick thought. What the hell am I going to blog about when the wedding is over? I mean, I won't be counting down to anything. I'll just be married. Eh. I mean, seriuosly, two posts today? It's not even my birthday.)