Hi Terrapin Station,Terrapin Station wrote: ↑May 15th, 2021, 10:55 am I'm not at all spiritual, so I've never seen marriage as a "spiritual journey" or anything like that.
I've been married a few times, but I don't see that as a problem really.
And my current marriage has lasted for 21 years so far.
For me spiritual just means there is emotional intelligence involved in the relationship, that there is real emotional contact, perhaps the earlier experiences were somewhat less then emotionally rewarding or they would not have failed. For me, there is no religious context here at all. The fact that marriage is a give and take and the longer a couple is together there is a psychological melding that occurs over the years really accounts for terming of the developing relationship a co-evolutionary experience.