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Too many people mistakenly assume marriage is a \u201cmeet in the middle\u201d proposition, an arrangement in which two people fulfill their half of a \u201cbargain,\u201d relying on the other to do his or her part, as well.\xa0

Sounds logical, doesn\u2019t it?\xa0

If marriage were a business arrangement, then such a process just might work.\xa0 But it\u2019s not.\xa0 Nor would we want it to be.\xa0

A business contract is a cold impersonal agreement made with the presumption that each party might fail to fulfill his responsibilities if not for a legally binding pact.\xa0 It is a loveless pledge which bears no resemblance to the covenant made between two people who have vowed to \u201chave and to hold\u201d through every trial of life.\xa0

If a couple endeavors to build their marriage upon such terms, it will be a bitter ordeal, and they will seek to end it long before their fulfillment of the vow \u201ctil death do us part.\u201d

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