Marriage is a bond and it can only be created when two people are ready to accept each other’s flaws. Flaws that are primarily negative, because when you are comfortable in other person’s weaknesses, you are ready to help the other person improve and become the best version of himself. And above all what connects two people is love, and the idea of love is delusional for many folks. One of the greatest emotional skills we can bring to love is that correct of awareness of what can legitimately be expected of love. Our expectations are never higher, and therefore never more trouble-inducing, than they are in love. There are a range of reckless ideas circulating in our societies about what sharing a life with another person might be like. We see relationship difficulties around us all the time but retain a remarkable capacity to discount negative information. Despite the divorces, failures and loneliness all around, we cling to highly ambitious ideas of what relationships shoul...