Now the question is what marriage means to us.

For the first time in their relations, she was trying to visualize to herself exactly what marriage with this young man would mean.

"Try to understand what this marriage means to my father."

She understands little about what marriage means, particularly to a man who has been in love with someone else for many years.

I was driven in my career, afraid of what marriage and children might really mean to me.

"But marriage means that a person is taken care of for life."

Again he said to himself, "She does not realize what marriage means!"

Didn't Rowan understand what the marriage would mean to the family?

Your marriage to her meant the breaking of our friendship.

Similarly, marriage once meant only one thing: the joining of a man and a woman.