a better sentiment

What marriage may be in the case of two persons of cultivated faculties, identical in opinions and purposes, between whom there exists that best kind of equality, similarity of powers and capacities with reciprocal superiority in them — so that each can enjoy the luxury of looking up to the other, and can have alternately the pleasure of leading and of being led in the path of development — I will not attempt to describe. To those who can conceive it, there is no need; to those who cannot, it would appear the dream of an enthusiast.

-John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

So yea, screw your "til death do us part" stuff with its implications of possession. THAT'S a good damned idea of how this is supposed to work.