sharing burdens

This has been a tough week for both my husband and I, for various individual reasons. I am discovering something about marriage. That verse that says the husband and wife will become one...it's not joking around. Suddenly, our individual sorrows...and joys...are felt by the other one as if these were their own. Suddenly, we long to "fix" the source of pain. Suddenly, we are in deep communion with each other's souls.

And when we are the suffering one, we know that we no longer face our sorrow and burdens alone.

The two shall become one.