Marriage is very difficult. It’s like a 5,000–piece jigsaw puzzle, all sky.

Ladman’s joke frames marriage as a long, intricate project whose difficulty comes less from dramatic obstacles than from monotony and sameness. A 5,000‑piece jigsaw puzzle suggests patience, persistence, and the slow accumulation of tiny adjustments—much like daily compromise and communication. But making it “all sky” adds the punchline: in jigsaw culture, sky pieces are notoriously hard because they lack distinctive features. The image implies that in marriage the hardest parts are the repetitive, low‑contrast stretches—routine, small irritations, and subtle emotional cues—where progress is hard to measure and it’s easy to feel stuck. The humor softens a sober insight about endurance and attention.