So when modern-day religious conservatives wax nostalgic about how marriage is a sacred tradition that reaches back into history for thousands of uninterrupted years, they are absolutely correct, but in only one respect—only if they...

What is marriage?” Is it the impression and expectation that this man can make me happy—can be a savior that helps me forget the tragedy of my parents’ failed relationship as well as my own...

Properly speaking, altruism is an absurdity. Women are self-sacrificing in direct proportion to their incapacity to offer anything but this sacrifice. They sacrifice what they never had: a self. The cry of the deserted woman,...

And her work! Oh, the thought of being deprived of that! With only his love in return, his love and his amiable domestic tyranny!

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.

My spirit is free. My heart is taken.

When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

Charlie dear, it is I who have to be proud of you. And I am very, very proud of you. You have called me pretty; and as long as I am pretty in your eyes,...

My wife must be stupid. I mean, look, she married me, didn’t she?

Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth. Mrs Miracle

His fingerprints covered my skin.

I fear that this is what long term relationships are all about, at base: full-time role-playing, memorized and inhabited.

M.

Some people may also be working less and not trying as hard to build wealth as they have marriage troubles. Divorce is often a long and messy process.

Dear Eloisa (said I) there’s no occasion for your crying so much about such a trifle. (for I was willing to make light of it in order to comfort her) I beg you would not...

After having so nobly disentangled themselves from the shackles of Parental Authority, by a Clandestine Marriage, they were determined never to forfeit the good opinion they had gained in the World, in so doing, by...

Any marriage is hard work. But what I always say is, “Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.

As you turn into a daddy, soon now, you’ll find that, on marrying, a man and woman start actually living.

Life was not meant to be live alone.

For women, marriages foreclosed often resulted in anaccumulation of booty; for men, these failed projects of implausible optimismwere more likely to manifest themselves in material lack. It washard to resist the metaphorical impression that women...

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

I don’t want to be married just to be married. I can’t think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can’t talk to, or worse, someone I can’t be...

The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.

A good wife always forgives her husband when she’s wrong.

If you will let it, this Blue Willow platter can represent my promise to fill your life with my trust and love and a houseful of children. – Peter Andersen

God lures us into marriage through love and sex and loneliness, or simply the fact that someone finally paid attention – all those reasons that you got married in the first place. It doesn’t really...

First, I’m not getting married, so you can forget the wife. Second, if I was insane enough to get married, I wouldn’t have kids. Third, if I was insane enough to get married and have...

A state Constitutional Amendment is necessary because, as we have seen elsewhere, activist judges have overturned statutory protections of marriage.

When we reach our highest potential, we will find our highest love.

Marriage did not hold much interest for Urmila but it was a social discipline she would have to conform to. She would rather seek knowledge instead of a suitor.

When coming to sex: First served, first come.

Dating is a man-made ideology: if having a lover was a prerequisite to living, one would either be in a relationship, or, six feet under.

The relationship between any two communities in the global economy is not unlike a marriage. As couples counselors advise, relationships falter when two partners are too interdependent. When any stress affecting one partner – the...

Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.

They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed.

The real genesis is forbidden to me, vis-à-vis N´s inability to confess even the mildest transgressions.

The woman who left abusive husbands in the 60’s and 70’s improved the institution of marriage because men now know that women can leave their husbands and the women or men who stay in abusive...

The true love is unconditional.Marriage is a conditional bond.

What good was living if a man didn’t have a family?

Why do people stay together? Putting aside ‘for the sake of the children’, and ‘the habit of years’ and ‘economic reasons’ as lawyers’ nonsense – it’s not much more – if one really does try...

And of course I didn’t know who would marry me now that I’d been where I had been. I didn’t know at all.

It was his wedding day, and then it was any day; it was nothing, and then it was forever.

We simply can’t abandon ship every time we encounter a storm in our marriage. Real love is about weathering the storms of life together.

When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired...

She took comfort in the familiarity of his smell, knowing that if she lost all her possessions and her home, at least she would have her family.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.Act II

It has always been simple, but making it hard was always your way of avoiding pain. If you want to change your life, you have to change what you are doing. It wasn’t his fault,...

It is to be broken. It is to betorn open. It is not to bereached and come to rest inever. I turn against you,I break from you, I turn to you.We hurt, and are hurt,and...

When you feel great delight in someone, meeting their needs and getting their gratitude and affection in return is extremely rewarding to your ego. At those times you may be acting more out of the...

It’s hard to decide matters of the heart, especially when Self-love is rooted in our decisions. You’ll need to balance your needs with the people you love in order to avoid hurting others.