You must stand up straight and put a name upon your actions.—Stevenson.
HE business in marriage requires commonsense about ninety-nine per cent.
There is usually less romance in marriage than in any other relationship of life.
But the general idea concerning marriage is that it is all or nearly all romance.
There is no other business partnership so intimate and complex as that in marriage.
And this partnership is entered into, the legal papers are drawn, witnesses to the transaction are called, and a life agreement is made without thought, discussion or an agreement concerning the business part of this partnership.
Emphasis has been placed only upon the love, the part of the contract which mortals can not control.
The business part of this contract holds the destinies of the contracting parties as no other partnership can. Husband and wife can ruin each other’s fortunes utterly. No outsider can do this.
We would consider two men ridiculous who entered into a business partnership, discussing with each other only the pleasure they anticipated in seeing each other so constantly as they would, working side by side each day.