I guess we can both agree that indeed a lot of what is in the Bible is absurd. Perhaps your wife feels the same way you do about the absurdity of Leviticus about your views of covenant marriage. . .
The only way marriage will work is if both parties what it to. And I don't think that any amout of magical thinking will change that.
I'm a man . . . But I can change . . . If I have to . . . I guess . . .