““Before, she’d envisioned their marriage as a battle waged between the two of them, where one triumphed and one surrendered, a contest for control and power. But marriage, she now knew, was not war at all. Marriage was man and wife, side by side as they were now, sharing life’s adventures and battling its challenges...together. It was an alliance forged of the finest steel, tempered in the fires of adversity, and thus blessed by unrivaled strength.””
