‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh’ (Gen. 2:24). In a very real sense, then, marriage is not a mere social convenience, or even just a religious ceremony. Rather it is to be seen as a reuniting of the man and the women at the deepest level of their creation, as real as if the bone and flesh were joined together to make one new person again! There are a number of practical implications which flow from these verses in Genesis