Love becomes fruitful through a kind of death and resurrection. So too in marriage—we die to mine and rise to ours. To be truly one, husband and wife must share everything: their goals, their resources, their responsibilities. But this is even more true in the spiritual life. Prayer is no longer offered for oneself alone, but for the other. In this order of grace, the wife is like a type of the Church—asking, pleading, gathering graces—while the husband, as head, spends himself in sacrifice for the good of his bride. Thus both advance: her intercession, his offering; one body learning daily death and daily new life.