196. (xi) The purpose of this is to make the will of both into one, and so the two become a single person.
Anyone who links another's will to himself also links his intellect to himself. For the intellect regarded in itself is merely the servant and lackey of the will. This fact is obvious from the affection of love being able to control the thinking of the intellect as it likes. Every affection of love is specific to the will, for what a person loves he also wills. It follows from this that anyone who links a person's will to himself also links his whole personality. That is why it is innate in a wife's love to unite her husband's will to her own, since by this she becomes her husband's, and her husband becomes hers; thus they are together one person.