Marriage

Inspite of all the craziness and problems that marriage brings, why do we get married?
It's not for pleasure or for passion, it's bcos we need a witness to our lives.
There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does any ones life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness'.""

I have kept thinking and coming back to this simplistic definition from Shall We Dance?
While i agree with the gist of it, i feel we expect our spouses to be a little more than mere witness to our lives, little more "a partner in crime" than a witness. But it is also true that you may not see your spouse as an accomplice to all that happens in your life, but witness he/she surely is.