Marriage: Is love enough?

I wasn't going to write today. It's been a rough week, both physically and otherwise. But, I feel compelled to write something that has been on my mind all morning. There is a scripture in Ephesians where Paul is admonishing couples. Let's look at it real quick:

25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. 29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: 30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Eph 5:24-33 (KJV)

Before I go further, let me just say that I am not a marriage expert. In fact, I am the exact opposite! So, what I write can be taken any way you choose, but it's more for me today that I write.

Paul begins his admonition here with a statement (one that I did not include) about women submitting to their husbands and that the man is the head of the wife. Now, I am not going to deal with that part at all because the weightier matter is before us. Husbands, love your wives. Now, why did he say that? Love your wives? This instruction to love your wife is repeated numerous times in the canon of writings ascribed to Paul. I remember reading this one time and thinking, if a man has to be told to love his wife, he has a serious problem. Love is the very foundation of marriage, is it not?