The Eight Stages of Marriage

It takes a writer with a brave soul to discuss the deepest mystery in the universe: marriage.

     William Shakespeare once penned a sonnet entitled “The Eight Stages of Man,” which I had to memorize for Mrs. Betty French's high school English Lit class. That guy was always writing some crazy 14-line nonsense about life and love.

     “In some perfumes is there more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.” Way to woo the gals, William.

     But Shakespeare was a bit of a chicken. Anyone can wax poetic about something as simple as the stages of life in “The Eight Stages of Man” or tell a tragic tale of forbidden love like “Romeo and Juliet.” But it takes a writer with a braver soul to explore the deepest mystery of the universe: marriage. So, without further ado I present to you “The Eight Stages of Marriage.”