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It’s the hardest thing most of us will ever do and thus the ultimate puzzle. It’s possible, that since human marriage is a reflection of divine marriage, that subjecting ourselves to its fire and learning to navigate wedlock helps estranged divinity itself unite, thus ameliorating what could be the fundamental existential problem. Beyond that, marriage could be said to be the process of alchemical transmutation. the fire and pressure of longterm commitment being the chamber in which base humanity is transformed into something nobler. Finally, marriage and the household as the bedrock unit of social order. Lots of data showing children from two-parent households have better educational outcomes, lower rates of addiction and arrest, all of which place massive strain of social systems individually and in the aggregate. So, stable married household as a meaningful way to contribute to a stable prosperous society.