One for the DINKs

A friend sent me the following quote the other day, which, as someone who is still fairly newly married (you're still a rookie for the first fifteen years, aren't you?), I found provocative:

“Those questions [about freedoms and rights and the relationship of husband and wife], then as now, existed only for those who see nothing in marriage but the pleasure married people may derive from one another – who see only the first beginnings of a marriage and not its whole significance, the family."

It's from Tolstoy's War and Peace, written in the 1860s; unsure what page. Thanks Bert :).