People desire marriage for various reasons. While happiness is certainly an aspect of marriage, keep in mind it is only a part. No doubt you should marry someone who makes you happy, but you do so realizing that they won’t always make you happy. How could they? No one is perfect. This leads us to the realization that: Marriage is not merely about happiness. Marriage is about so much more than happiness, but so often we have in our minds that marriage itself should make us happy. Or, we have the fantasy, Disney story mindset that marriage is ALL about happiness. Both of these are unrealistic expectations to have in…