It's Good to Be Married

Chapter One: The Car Was Running

Marriage is an unavoidable risk.

You can forgo it—plenty do. Maybe you dodge the heartbreak, the late-night arguments, the slow unraveling of two sinners learning to live under the same roof. But dodge that and you also give up the flesh-and-blood joy of a household—the kind of companionship that doesn’t sparkle, but endures. You give up virtuous sex, th…