Life – with or without softener- is hard

A husband and wife honor God when they love and honor each other.

When you truly love someone, his/her weaknesses are not meant to be discussed with other people, they are meant to be understood by you.

Mistakes are great teachers. They are stern, confident and fierce inredirecting you from what you should not do; to what you should do.

Een geboorte of een huwelijk mag dan een belangrijke gebeurtenis zijn, maar het garandeert geen plaats in het geheugen.’ De hersens, een zeef.’Knoop dat in uw oren: niets is zeker. Zeker is niets.

Today’s marriages become toxic, with resentments, after only a few years. It’s one thing to say, ‘I forgive,’ but most lack the enterprise to do the necessary work that follows. It was the day after...

I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,’ she opined, ‘like having someone else break in one’s own pony.

A man will strategically organize his life in boxes and then spend most of his time in the boxes he can succeed in.

Women who got married got screwed.

Some marry because they are in love. Others marry to have sex … without the guilt.

Once a woman goes over 25, she prioritizes ‘financial security’ in a potential lover. Love and good looks are just a bonus.

Marriage is always something of a compromise, as I’m sure you’re now aware. Any long-term relationship is – and one does have to see it in the long term, Charles. No, I expect your mother...

Any way I slice reality it comes out poorly, and I feel an urge to not exist, something I have never felt before; and now here it comes with conviction, almost panic. I mentally bless...

The whole world seems tilted, my inner ear displaced by a hole where my spouse used to be.

Although I notice there is never a truly good time to have a nice long chat with one´s mother-in-law, unless you are having an extraordinary life and marriage and your mother-in-law is, say, Maureen Dowd,...

When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was. Not better, necessarily; not worse, necessarily; but different.

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...

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...

Live for what you love, and die for what you’re unwilling to live without…

How Many Marriages Would Be Better If the Husband and the Wife Clearly Understood That They’re On the Same Side?

That word is ‘willing.’ It’s an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversations. It’s like a palm tree by the ocean that endures the greatest winds because it knows how to gracefully...

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as...

The point I was trying to make before you interrupted with your inventoryof my personality is that neither of us is going to be able to stay celibate for the next six months.”She dropped her...

A woman has to change her nature if she is to be a wife. She has to learn to curb her tongue, to suppress her desires, to moderate her thoughts and to spend her days...

Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,Thy head, thy sovereign, one that cares for thee,And for thy maintenance; commits his bodyTo painful labor, both by sea and land;To watch the night in storms,...

I once read that love is like a rose: we fixate on the blossom, but it’s the thorny stem that keeps it alive and aloft. I think marriage is like that. Like my father said,...

Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.

I had no illusions about you,’ he said. ‘I knew you were silly and frivolous and empty-headed. But I loved you. I knew that your aims and ideals were vulgar and commonplace. But I loved...

The doubts, strong as they were, were rousing more than hesitation. Her eyes drifted closed, fingertips sliding over the silk and lace panties she wore.Larry could never know how many times they’d been pulled aside...

He said, I always thought the woman I’d marry would hit me easy, in a bolt of lightning, and there is not lightning there is not even thunder there is not even rain.

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through — a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

When I was twelve, my sixth-grade English class went on a field trip to see Franco Zeffirelli’s film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. From that moment forward I dreamed that someday I’d meet my...

Marriage as a team means working and playing together toward a winning season.

Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime.

Miss Cecily,” she gasped, and then her eyes went to Will. She clapped a hand over her mouth, turned, and bolted back into the house. “Oh, dear,” said Tessa. “I have that effect on women,”...

Charlotte said that if I chose, I could cease to be a Gray and take the name my mother should have had before she was married. I could be a Starkweather. I could have a...

A wise mother is the unifying force between father and children; her seed of love produces a harvest of trust.

We made love. Extraordinary love.

As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted larger world.

A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.

[A]s people are beginning to see that the sexes form in a certain sense a continuous group, so they are beginning to see that Love and Friendship which have been so often set apart from...

It wasn’t a lack of attraction to her husband that caused her problems. It was life. It was traffic. It was the Miami Dade Water and Sewer bills, it was trying to get ahead, and...

Marry on Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth,Wednesday the best day of all,Thursday for crosses,Friday for losses, and Saturday for no luck at all.

Finding a life partner is like choosing a bed. You need one as a friend either in times of health or sickness. Freshness or weariness. Happiness or sadness. And we can be certain that we’ve...

Young man, the fact that she did not accept your proposal for a relationship does not define why you should hate her. She may not become your BRIDE, but she can be the BRIDGE you...

There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

We went out to a romantic dinner, and do you know how you can just tell when it’s the perfect moment to propose? Well, it wasn’t one of those moments—at least not with her. I...

A relationship that violates values is simply headed for crisis.

He told me he was getting married, and I told him I approved of his upcoming divorce.

All love on this earth involves choice. When, for example, a young man expresses his love to a young woman and asks her to become his wife, he is not just making an affirmation of...