Some people snort in indignation anytime they hear a story that hints at romance between a husband and a wife. Doesn’t marriage mean an end to romance? The recently released film, The Notebook, says, No. On one level, it’s easy to dismiss the film as a “big, gooey, over-the-top … chick flick,” as film critic Ann Hornaday called it. But the story, based on a book by Nicholas Sparks, teaches us a lot about what marriage can and should be. In the film, an old man is seen reading a story of young love to an old woman suffering from...