Lisa Howe’s Reviews > Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married > Status Update

"Then we come down off the emotional high and those aspects of life that we disregarded in our euphoria begin to become important. [...] We have now discovered for ourselves that being in love is not the foundation for a happy marriage."

I've always thought this about arranged marriages — while not the most romantic, they do allow for discussion around the more practical aspects of marriage often clouded by "love".