"I had a strange dream. In my dream you and I both had to marry someone else. It was a fox. What's the word I'm looking for? The fox was coy. You did not know exactly where you stood with this fox. The fox knew I was insecure about the possibility that you were more attracted to the fox than to me. But the fox was also kind of attractive."

Separation agreements sometimes contain a general explanatory clause to the effect that the parties have separated "in consequence of disputes and unhappy differences." I like "happy differences" as a definition of marriage.