Isaac Comforted and Love Turns Toward the Wife

"And Isaac was comforted after his mother." Rabbi Yose said, Isaac mourned three years for his mother, and after three years he took Rebecca and forgot the mourning for his mother. From here you learn that before a man takes a wife, his love goes after his parents; once a man takes a wife, his love goes after his wife, as it is said, "Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother" (Genesis 2:24) and so forth. Does a man then forsake the commandment to honor his parents? Rather, the love of his soul cleaves after his wife, as it is said, "and he shall cleave to his wife."