CCC 1605

Holy Scripture affirms that man and woman were created for one another: "It is not good that the man should be alone."⁹² Gen 2:18. The woman, "flesh of his flesh," i.e., his counterpart, his equal, his nearest in all things, is given to him by God as a "helpmate"; she thus represents God from whom comes our help.⁹³ Cf. Gen 2:18-25. "Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh."⁹⁴ Gen 2:24. The Lord himself shows that this signifies an unbreakable union of their two lives by recalling what the plan of the Creator had been "in the beginning": "So they are no longer two, but one flesh."⁹⁵ Mt 19:6.