I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

You never have to suffer because of, or be denatured by, another person, even someone you love.

You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about…anything, which you don’t, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have been going about for the last six months telling the whole of society that I adore you. I...

I feel incendiary, a wildfire. My spirit licks at the gates of a very elaborate, customized, and distracting emotional Hades.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

And sometimes both of them forgot that what they were undergoing amid the clink of cutlery and crockery was a mutual interview that might decide whether or not they would own a common set of those items some time in the whimsical future.

It’s unfortunate that those that oppose the marriage amendment are using issues like domestic violence as scare tactics.

In a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people to one another has become difficult and rare. Yet, by its scarcity, the beauty and value of this exchange have only been enhanced.

Ma wrong about one thing. When I was girl, she only talk about love in the marriage. […] Nobody tell me what make real marriage–respect.

But there’s no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet.

Cursed is the man who ceaselessly loves without fear – He will inevitably fall in love with the devil.

And when he got home he started on Mumma. He hated her then, because in her fatness and untidiness and drabness she reminded him of what he himself was when he was sober.

The notion that women shouldn’t care about personal success — or the work that gets them there — is disengenuous; it is impossible for women not to have jobs anymore, so it doesn’t make sense to expect them to structure their lives around getting married. The real failure is our cultural incapacity to make room...

Good. I will.”Mendanbar tried to find something to say, but he was too happy to think. He leaned forward two inches and kissed Cimorene, and discovered that he didn’t need to say anything at all.

I love you more than I hate everything else.

I know you won’t miss me, I know you won’t even bother to ask how i am without you? But still my heart will always call for you, my mind will always think of you because I love you and I will miss you that every moment that I stay without you.

Be the man she can depend on, not the man that constantly lets her down.

Chivalry in love has nothing to do with the sweetness of the appearance. It has everything to do with the tenderness of a heart determined to serve. You must not act under the impetus of charm, but out of a commitment to make someone’s life the joy you want it to be.

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

There’s the emotional work that comes with living with someone who’s not you and who therefore has different preferences ans styles of communicating. She might prefer to talk for three days straight if that’s what it takes to resolve an argument, while you would rather fill your pockets with granite and walk into the ocean.

Attitude determines Altitude.Winners never quit.No venture, No gain.

How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitiate, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.

I don’t think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

I don’t need you by my side. But I want you there. Very much want you there. That, I think, saysmore. Means more.”He took the hand she held out to him. “We’ll go down. James should be here soon

Marriage is a million piece puzzle; a pristine and exciting pursuit at the beginning that gradually becomes a daunting task, usually more challenging than anticipated. It is only those truly committed to solving that puzzle who witness in the end the miraculous outcome of every tiny piece laid out and pressed together in an inspiring...

I don’t know why we stopped reading together, but gradually we were not doing it regularly, and then without realizing it was happening we were reading different books, and gradually we came not to care about the book the other one was reading, because it was not the book we were reading, and we became...

Love is an act of endless forgiveness; a tender look which becomes a habit.

And so must learn to love with our mouths and voices, as well as with our eyes, flesh, heart, brains, and with everything we have, right down to our toenails. There is not anything about us that cannot love, and that is not called to love, and that is not destined to be turned, conformed,...

I saw my reflection in their eyes, but not the men themselves, not clearly. This preserved the idea that all intelligent and even vaguely attractive men were essentially good. Delusion detest focus and romance provides the veil.

Together we agree that there are few tableaus more pathetic than a woman poring over a plethora of self-help books, while in a small café across town her husband is sharing a bottle of Pouilly-Fuissé and fettucini Alfredo with a beautiful woman, fondling her fishnet knee and making careful plans to escape his life.

I want to own this transition, not to simply swallow the shame of it entire. I will push for every little irony.

My mind floats like ash. I blame myself most cruelly.

I feel angry but not homocidal; this may be unlooked-for progress.

You don’t want me to feel obligated? Well, I’m sorry, Lily. I am herebecause I feel obligated.” He brought her hand to his chest, pressing herpalm flat against his rapidly thumping pulse. “I’m obligated by my heart. It’sdecided you’re essential to my existence, you see. And it’s threatening to go out on labor strike if...

I have a new mantra, which I chant softly to myself: “Oh My God Oh My God.

I love you as the mother of my child”: the kiss of death.Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self.

Sex Games: What Men Really Think About Sex Partners (Sexuality, Cheating

It had all seemed as inevitable as sunset. Instead it was the beauty of the sun glinting upon the scythe.

I review what I know once again, confronting the monolith now alien and almost unconnected to me: my marriage.

Flannel shirts should be outlawed for ex husbands; I realize this now. Flannel shirts are to women what crotchless panties are to men.

A wife should always be few feet behind her husband. If he is an MA you should be a BA.If he is 5’4’tall you shouldn’t be more than 5’3’tall. If he is earning five hundred rupees you should never earn more than four hundred and ninety nine rupees.That’s the only rule to follow if you...

Think of your husband as a house. You are allowed to give him a fresh coat of paint and change out the furniture now and then. But if you’re constantly trying to pour a new foundation or replace the roof, you’re in serious trouble.

The good news is that I believe every woman who wants to can find a great partner. You’re just going to need to get rid of the idea that marriage will make you happy. It won’t. Once the initial high wears off, you’ll just be you, except with twice as much laundry. Because ultimately, marriage...

What keeps the marriage going is your commitment to your spouse’s holiness.

When relationships fail it is usually because someone chooses not to show up for the battle.

If you’re stressing over happiness, you’re doing it wrong!

If you truly loved someone you won’t become their enemy. You will become their guardian angel.

7 Principles of a Happy MarriageAlways listenBe thereCompromise is necessaryBuild up trustA kiss before sleep, a kiss after wakingNever keep scoreDo things together

What marriage offers – and what fidelity is meant to protect – is the possibility of moments when what we have chosen and what we desire are the same. Such a convergence obviously cannot be continuous. No relationship can continue very long at its highest emotional pitch. But fidelity prepares us for the return of...

A man of worth is a man that sees the worth in others more than himself.