Marriage=Contract Against Loneliness?

It fills me with an unsettling feeling, when I see a heavily pregnant woman walking behind her husband, who carries a child in his hands and keeps on walking, never once turns back his head to look at his wife.

Or a married couple in mrt who fuss frantically over their child all the time, wiping his mucus , hushing him from crying, again, when they r not doing so,just stare into blank spaces, their eyes hollow , void of each other.

Worse still, when my parents yell at each other over the most trivial matter.

It seems so natural,almost an unavoidable curse, for married couple to gradually move into complacency of each other's presence and take each other for granted. Marriage was just an insurance contract signed for mutual companionship;before the contract is secured, there is alot of efforts trying to secure it, but once it is closed, a sigh of relief is heaved and the tummy sucked in all the while relaxed; and it is time to move on to baby-making and career. NEXT please.

Had he forgotten how his heart skipped a beat the first time he tried to kiss her?

Had she forgotten how the way he smiles made little butterflies flutter in her stomach?

Why must a marriage mark the era of dry spells of demonstration of love? Like a piece of land, which is once fertile, but after crops are planted on it (rowdy kids, endless housechores,hellish jobs etc for this matter), they sap up all the nutrients of the land, leaving it cracked and barren. Sure enough, love alone won't feed us , we need to work hard to find bread and can't u see those kids are driving us nuts oredi?!

But why do these have to be reasons for us to stop looking longingly into each other's eyes, to give reasurring rubs on each other's backs , or to whisper gently into each other's ears...?

Being a hopeless romantic as for now, it gives me chills at the prospect of such outcomes; that a marriage is nothing but a partnership in extending the family line and the insurance against dying lonely in a home when i am old. I need more than just that.

Having to live with someone who takes me for granted for the rest of my life, that is what i call ultimate loneliness.