The alternative is considering you might be wrong... and perhaps that is unfathomable to you, but it is an alternative.
Madness string 3102
We're awful at explaining to other people why we're happy in our marriage - it always comes off as having 'settled' but that's not it at all. It was more like we met, hung out, got together and then it was as if we'd been together all along, like they'd always been there.