Marriage is love put to it’s ultimate test – the grindstone of life. Where the idealism of love meets the everydayness of marriage.

I had no intention of forsaking my wedding vows. I had strong morals and never could have imagined going against them. I was never even tempted to stray.

There is no such thing as a “broken family.” Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes...

In all things in this life, we are told “It’s okay if you don’t make it the first time!”, “It’s fine if you don’t get it right the first time, just try again and again!”...

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

The emotional place where a marriage begins is not nearly as important as the emotional place where a marriage finds itself toward the end, after many years of partnership.

device” (as I have called it) was learned in part from a very young age from her parents.

We all face storms in life, whether it is a storm like Katrina, a storm in a marriage, or a storm in our finances.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

I think it’s a wonderful marriage.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own...

There are red splatters all over my shirt. Is that spaghetti sauce—or a murder stain? Somebody go look for my mother-in-law, and if you find her, let me know so I can move the body...

As you get older; you’ve probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You’ll be talking with somebody at a party, and you’ll know that you know this person, but no matter how hard you...

Don’t be silly. We’ve already met. What, do you think I’d marry a stranger?

Soulmates are those people who will enter your life, fix it when it is broken, fill it when it is empty, and shower it with love when it is in drought. These people are not...

It was as if we’d known each other for a thousand years.

Government should not be involved in marriage at all, I believe. There’s no reason for it. I don’t get the value of my marriage government, I get it from God. I want the government out...

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that’s not the clever trick. The really clever...

On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again.

So we fell asleep holding hands. If married couples got to do this all the time, shit if I could understand how there were ever divorces, or even fights.

Oh, of course there’s a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it’s all said and done, there’s many a worse thing than a husband.

But marrying within one’s own family can get monotonous. One has heard all the same family stories, knows all the jokes and all the same recipes. No novelty.

Every man is a bachelor out of his wife’s sight!

…but once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, though they be blockheads

I’ll tell you how I knew my marriage was over I was told. I’d marry her all over again because I still love her. It would be a lot easier to walk away if I...

Was it possible to love a man who made you feel ridiculous? Of course […..], love was complicated, that was all. Or was love simple, and marriage was complicated? In seventeen years of marriage David...

God takes great joy in the passionate romantic love between a husband and wife.

You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days.Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.But let there...

Men don’t settle down because of the right woman. They settle down because they are finally ready for it. Whatever woman they’re dating when they get ready is the one they settle down with, not...

She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master’s finishing touch.

At eleven, Kate woke Jake up when she went searching in the cooler for juice.”You know, you used to be peaceful,” he grumbled.”I can’t believe you were ever married.” Kate said, as she cracked the...

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

She shrugged, looking as baffled by it as he felt. “I don’t know. I wonder sometimes if people even know what love is anymore. Some days, when I’m watching my friends change lovers as unperturbedly...

If I had a girl I should say to her, ‘Marry for love if you can, it won’t last, but it is a very interesting experience and makes a good beginning in life. Later on,...

There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman.

For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

Love songs are nothing without exaggeration.

No. She told me she was going to marry him, to get French nationality . . . She was obsessed with getting a nationality…

He announces that lately he keeps losing things. “Like your wife and child,” I want to say, but don´t. At fourty, I´ve learned not to say everything clever, not to score every point.

I´ve blown it, the whole grisly charade.

A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one’s own needs to that of the other’s, in the expectation that the other will do the same.

Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you...

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one’s other self listening.

I thought I would die without you, in reality I was reborn…

Children have rights outside their mother’s womb without having to be victim’s of Domestic Violence inside their mother’s womb.

Nobody knows you as well as our spouse. And that means no one will be quicker to recognize a change when you deliberately start sacrificing your wants and wishes to make sure his or her...

We have a lot of work to do moving the American public to be more supportive of marriage for same-sex couples. And while we do that, we will win some battles and lose others. It...

I take thee… to be my awful wedded husband

When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool,...