LOVE AND LOVE Reflections

Photo credit: www.shutterstock.com After my previous article where I made an exposition that the reality of love is the reason why a man shall leave his parents and cleave to his wife, I kept thinking of what actually then keeps them together after the marriage. Couples exchange vows during the marriage ceremony – promises to take each other “in health and in sickness; for richer and for poorer; for better for worse . . .” – and they are expected to remember their vows always. But as the realities set in and they pass through the stages of marriage life, – children come in, work becomes more demanding, and sexual desire and physical appearances diminish – many “forget” their vows, and the result normally is divorce.  So if the vow exchanged by couples on their wedding day is not able to keep them together, then what will? It then struck me that after the couple leave, they are to cleave; and to cleave means to stick, be glued to or to keep tight. So what will be t