Marriage exposes the real us.

A successful marriage requires maturity and patience, which we often don't have early on in the marriage.

Sexual relations are a reflection of the quality of the marriage.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

We'll continue to operate as we've been operating. We've been issuing marriage licenses according to Massachusetts law. A couple would just simply have to state their intention to reside in Massachusetts for us to issue the license.

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults