I'm reading a book called The Intimate Mystery. This is about how marriage should be. Their main idea comes from Gen. 2:24-25. They say for a marriage to be healthy the husband and wife need to leave, weave and cleave. The idea is the couple leaves their father and mother from an emotional perspective that they actually become a new family, making their own decisions without interference from the In-laws. And then they are to weave each others lives together from the past to the present dealing with underlying issues that may cause division. And then finally to cleave which has more to do with the sexual aspect of marriage. It is a great read and I want to share a few quotes with you.
"...marriage is not a relationship in which one person gets their way and the other joyfully complies. Power in a marriage is a delicate and mysterious inter-play of desire, discussion, and decision - it is never to be unilateral and authoritarian."
"The goal of marriage is intimacy, union, oneness."
"Children are to be born and grow out of the fundamental fecundity of a loyally committed couple."
"The goal of marriage is to reveal God. And God has revealed himself in Trinity. He is love. He is relationship. He is truth."
Those are some things that were written that stood out to me.
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