Sharp words could be exchanged in any marriage. The critical factor is what happens next. Is there an attempt to repair the relationship, and is that repair attempt accepted?
Why is the ketubah, this mundane financial document guaranteeing the rights of the woman, so paradigmatic of the Jewish marriage? And why bother decorating it?
As Jewish orphans in Yemen, Zechariah and Shama married young and survived extreme poverty and persecution. They were some of the first Yemeni Jews to move to Israel when the state was founded.