What is Marriage For?

One day we were out running errands. The radio in my car was playing in the background, and between songs there was an advertisement for an online dating service. The spokesman-doctor-expert guy was doing his spiel on how to find the right match in marriage, and his punch line was “opposites attract, and then attack.”

I reached over and turned off the radio.

Awkward.

Not long after, I started having second thoughts. I was defining love as “deep feelings of affection,” and my “love” was fading. And that scared me to death. I’m an idealist. “Good enough” doesn’t cut it for…