I married a man who was as much a part of me as my own soul.

While you’re singing something romantic, I can’t get the lyrics to ‘Love and Marriage’ out of my head, and that tune always reminds me of the jingle from Jeopardy.

The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That’s all you need.

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

And your will shall decide your destiny,” he said: “I offer you my hand, my heart, and a share of all my possessions.” You play a farce, which I merely laugh at.” I ask you...

A marriage is sensitive, fragile and crucial. Once you mess up with how you handle it, it will shatter

Let’s start with this statistic: You are delicious. Be brave, my sweet. I know you can get lonely. I know you can crave companionship and sex and love so badly that it physically hurts. But...

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that doesn’t mean she can’t have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones

Give me my heart; I am killing my existence without it.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what...

I want to get married, but first I’ll have to get a divorce.

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the “hour” of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving...

Compromising is the only path that all happy couples travel on.

Two former students of mine are getting married. Congrats, grandpa and grandpa!

One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.

Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody—so utterly well known...

Families that feel together, heal together.

Done.

You know what getting married is? It’s agreeing to taking this person who right now is at the top of his form, full of hopes and ideas, feeling good, looking good, wildly interested in you...

Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he’s a baby.

We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.

What kind of wedding would you like?” he asked, and stole another kiss before she could reply.”The kind that turns you into my husband.” She touched the firm line of his mouth with her fingers....

She was the curator of her marriage, collector of swift quotes and unremarked-upon sensations.

Your positive impact on the generations to come will be directly related to the ministry you have in that little place called home.

When you look back and realize there is no way you would have had a better life with another person, that’s when the relationship or marriage becomes worth it.

As long as you have goals to accomplish in this life, you will not truly be complete.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

The goal of marriage is not happiness, it is holiness…There is no mechanism whereby God can sanctify a person more than having them live in close proximity to another imperfect person….Our fundamental problem is that...

I suppose he’s a bit young,” he said.

Longed for him. Got him. Shit.

Deb and I were married on a snowy night – wind cross-wove a veil of snow for her then threw confetti at us as we left the lighted church…

Non mi piacciono i matrimoni combinati. Ci sono sbagli dei quali non bisognerebbe mai poter incolpare i propri poveri genitori.

Dylan, you’re my life. You.

I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.

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...

We talk. Darlene worries aloud that her husband works with a lot of attractive young women; she herself is fourty. I tell her it´s not about age. “Little thing called character,” I say, thinking, Accepting...

If the ultimate goal is lasting love, women are going to have to become comfortable with sacrifice and capitulation. Because those are the underpinnings of a long-term marriage – for both sexes.

You can never please everybody, don’t even try.

Until YOU get enough of what you’re going through, no matter what advice a person gives you, you’ll continue to go through the same thing. When you get the courage to stop making excuses for...

But people normally marry, and then they want that locked in time, so they think they’re not going to change. We’re going to change. Everybody’s going to change. So accepting that changes are part of...

A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.

Be careful whom you choose to love. This decision will impact your future life and happiness in ways you cannot yet imagine.

Our society places a lot of emphasis on feelings. We are taught that we should always follow our feelings and do whatever makes us happy. But feelings are very fickle and fleeting. Real love, on...

People change spouses more often than they clean out closets. And every time they say, ‘This is the one. This is the person I’m going to spend eternity with.’ Then forty or fifty years go...

People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.

It is a splendid thing to think that the woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the mask of years, if you really love her, you...

On Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday:”These two simply appreciate one another more than either of them appreciates anyone else, and they would rather be appreciated by one another more than by...

I don’t want to be your parent. I want to be your best friend, lover, cheering section, playmate and fill all the important parts of your soul. Together we will fill the rest as equals.

How can we pick and choose which parts of the Bible to follow? One thing is God’s will and another is just cultural differences? What if it’s all cultural? What if homosexuality or saving yourself...