I'll be sashaying along through life, feeling pretty cocky, when something will jolt me back into a sense of my neediness--my need for my husband. It could be a fleeting loneliness, a bad day at the office, a troubling phone conversation. And I'm reminded: "As competent and independent as you think you are--you can't go it alone. And you don't have to." ... That's what marriage at its best does for you: it puts someone in your corner.