Ponder Place

Paul Writes:

Why is it that we are told to cleave together as husband and wife. Yet a cleaver splits or separates apart, and cleavage implies space between two objects?

In the world there exist individuals. These individuals start out in what we call “not” a relationship. As time goes on, and due to the general makeup of our human nature, we tend to become drawn to one another. Its during this “drawing” time, which some may refer to as “dating”, that these individuals get to know one another more personally.

This period of dating is prone to allot of closeness and other fuddlebuddle. You may not know the meaning of fuddlebuddle, let me explain.

Fuddlebuttle involves a lot of abnormal happenings. Favors for example; pancakes in the morning, opening doors, saying thank you, calling randomly just to say hi, whispering sweet nothings in the ear, a gentle brush of the arm … Clear enough?

Marriage is the butcher of these relationships. Cleaving thusly through the hard work, blood, sweat, and tears that two people have put into building each brick that forms their bond. The remains of that once pristine and beautiful connection smear across the schmuck of the butcher. A strange type of tribute to the once grand companionship.

The relationship between cleave and cleavage is that of a metaphor. This metaphor is representative of that stage in a couple’s relationship prior to marriage. You have two bright, young individuals. Two people that when considered on their own merit shine as outstanding individuals. Being that these two individuals have not bound themselves in matrimony, they represent two figures desirable; side by side.

Of course this will usually lead to the aforementioned marriage, in which case go back to the beginning of this writing and start reading again.

Title image used with permission (permission pending) and courtesy of Roger Moore, check out the original here.