Boredom...

'Boredom is caused not by physical closeness but by being mentally and spiritually apart'....Richard Bach.

Yet I wonder how many of the successful marriages are based on mental and spritual closeness. In his book Bach points out that there are two approaches to marriage.
Some see marriage as a chess game where the ultimate aim of the two individual is to outweigh the other. Others see marriage as a building up of a sonata-a musical composition of movements of contrasting forms-working towards building up a harmonious tune together.

Well realistically speaking I think in most cases marriages do not follow one of the two approaches strictly but rather a combination of the two. Perfect mental and spritual closeness is an ideal situation, not a realistic one, as every individual is unique! So I wonder what is it that keeps one going when one is bored-apartness?? so that one can make a fresh start all over again? But then again with too many fresh starts you may never reach your destination. This seems like a vicious cirlce!!!