The Next Sexual Revolution - Christianity Today Magazine: "More than four decades after the introduction of the Pill, hardly anyone now getting married remembers the time when pleasure, procreation, passion, companionship, and parenthood were all intimately knotted into a bundle called marriage. Without those connections, marriage has become an arena for mere self-fulfillment and sexual expression. "

The article goes on to describe a mariage as a thread that runs through community. Further to our conversations about 'self seeking' and the free market, it is vital that we rediscover the sense that we don't live for ourselves but rather for each other. For me marriage is the vital place where I at least realise how far I need to move on that one from where I started!