CL 162, 177 - the growing and uniting of married love

CL 162
When friendship and mutual trust join together
with the first love in marriage,
conjugial love results,
which opens the partners' hearts and inspires in them
the sweet enjoyments of love,
and this more and more deeply
as friendship and trust are added to the original love,
and as that original love enters into this friendship and trust
and they into it.

CL 177
Married partners become proportionately one person
in the measure that their conjugial love grows.
And because, in heaven, this love is genuine,
owing to the celestial and spiritual life of the angels,
therefore two married partners there are called two
when they are referred to as husband and wife,
but one when they are referred to as angels.