It would’ve looked good or felt good in hindsight… having all the adventure and overwhelming passions of love in between being saved from one tragedy to the next.

But really, when you look at old people who are best friends even after saying “I do” for more than forty or fifty years, and you see them lounging on the porch holding hands on a very cool afternoon, they probably were thinking, “I am so very blessed to have made it to this porch with you after all that!”

Old folks happily married sitting on a porch holding hands probably sounds cheesy and boring than being saved from the fire, scheming and jealous hot ex-girlfriends, and being drowned just to reveal your knight in shining armor.

But all that adventure may just look good for novels.  You’d want to get to your relationship and end up in peace… not in pieces.  That kind of peace that the Bible says, “transcends all understanding” because you know that marriage is not going to be a perfectly happy Disney story every single day of your life, but you will have the divine strength from above to decide that whatever happens, you have the mettle to stick with that one person who can go through the storm with you.