In Thornton Wilder's play The Skin
of Our Teeth, the character Mrs. Antrobus says to her husband, "I didn't
marry you because you were perfect, I married you because you gave me a promise."
She takes off her ring and looks at it. "That promise made up for your
faults and the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got
married, and it was the promise that made the marriage.
"Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as
it is fit in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them."
(Col 3:18 KJV)