What is marriage?
You know, it's odd that I first decided to get married almost 4 years and and I've now been married for almost 2 years, yet I still find myself struggling to understand what a marriage is, even just what it is to me personally
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But on the other hand, I feel like it's impossible to describe the love, the friendship, the very ways it changes one--as you said, it's like there are new pathways, new ways of thinking. And it's wonderful and beautiful.
The thing is, I saw myself as "practically married", "the same thing as married", "completely committed", "almost married", etc before we were married... and yet somehow "actually married" has been worlds different for me.
Interesting--and ditto. I'm not even sure how it's worlds different, but it really is.
The LDS believe that when two people are married (in the temple as part of a special ceremony in a special room), their souls merge together giving them a common destiny in the eternal after life. I don't believe in their God, nor in an after life, nor do I have a firm idea of what I believe a soul is or if I even believe in one. But you know what? That's kind of what it felt like... or at least as good a description of what it felt like as any I have heard.
I love your description. J tends to believe that when two people marry (whatever that is) their souls merge together. I don't know what I believe, but I feel that way, if that makes any sense.
Thanks for sharing. You've made me smile and feel so happy that someone else is trying to describe this wonderful thing called marriage--and has put it into terms far better than I ever could. Do you mind if I share your post with a few close friends?
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