It sobers and steadies through the responsibility for each other which it means.
"Friendship"
Hugh Black
He makes women mad about him, and then goes back to his garret, and sobers up enough to write an essay or a story out of his recent first-hand studies in passion.
"She Buildeth Her House"
Will Comfort
Marriage, and the preparation for marriage, sobers a man.
"Callista"
John Henry Cardinal Newman