I ran across this excerpt from The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis, and it was such a humorous (and very British) take on marriage with more than a smidgeon of truth mixed in:

“Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I’m afraid even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up they were so used to quarrelling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently.”

Not that any of you married folks do this or anything . . .