Great reflections, Zues. You might enjoy a book I've been reading, Committed: A Love Story, by Elizabeth Gilbert. (She wrote Eat, Pray, Love, but has written mostly for a male audience before that.)

She talks about our expectations of marriage - how different cultures and different individuals have very varying views on the purpose of marriage and the needs it is supposed to fulfill.

M 16 yrs, WH62, P54
3 adult blended kids
EA 11/13, BD1 6/14
PA fall 14, BD2 2/15
Piecing 2015, BD3 12/15
Separated 4/16
WH moved OW in 5/16
Divorced 6/15/17