Companionship, partnership, mutual reassurance, someone to laugh with and grieve with, loyalty that accepts foibles, someone to touch, someone to hold your hand — these things are “marriage,” and sex is but the icing on the cake.

Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American writer

Time Enough for Love, “Variations on a Theme: 7” [Lazarus Long] (1973)
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