[Marilyn]

Your marriage relationship definitely changes over time, significantly. It deepens and matures in a way that is difficult to adequately describe. When you first marry you are two people, in love, but you are still getting to know each other. There is intimacy and passion. You experience lots of different emotions. There is conflict as you get to know each other, and this conflict is essential to your truly opening up to one another and achieving true committment. As you go through both good times and bad together, taking care of one another through sickness, sadness, conforting one another through all the ups and downs of life, sharing intense joys together, you begin to really connect in a way that is very strong and as I said difficult to describe. Committment grows and matures.