What if God designed marriage to make us holy more than to make us happy? … it's important to remember that the very concept of "romantic love," which is so celebrated in movies, songs, and cheap paperbacks, was virtually unknown to the ancients. There were exceptions - one need merely read the Song of Songs, for instance - but taken as a whole, the concept that marriage should involve passion and fulfillment and excitement is a relatively recent development on the scale of human history, making its popular entry toward the end of the eleventh century.
C.S. Lewis - whose marriage to an ailing woman was seen as somewhat "odd" by many of his contemporaries - explained that such a monumental shift in cultural thought as the development of romantic love is "very rare" - there are perhaps three or four on record - but I believe that they occur, and that this [romantic love] is one of them."
~ Sacred Marriage ~ Gary Thomas
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