Divorce is the second worst event in a person’s life. The worst event, of course, is marriage.

Even when we are screaming and throwing things, we are friends. Who is the man and who is the woman? Sometimes neither of us knows. The marriage is androgynous — like the closest friendships. It...

To last, a marriage and family must be built on love—love for God, and love for one another.

She’s SINGLE doesnt really mean she’s AVAILABLE.She’s IN A RELATIONSHIP doesnt really mean she’s NOT INTERESTED.She’s ENGAGED doesnt really mean IT’S OVER.IT’S JUST COMPLICATED untill she’s MARRIED!

mais je crois qu’elle aurait tout autant de chances d’être heureuse, si elle épousait Mr. Bingley demain que si elle se met à étudier son caractère pendant une année entière ; car le bonheur en ménage...

Conflict is growth trying to happen.

Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller to fit inside the hopes of the other, until one...

War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.

It was one thing not to want a husband, I realized; it was quite another not to need one for the roof over your head, for your meat and bread, for the shoes on your...

Pop stars AREN’T cool. Cheating on your husband or your wife isn’t cool. Having no modesty with your body and no self-respect is NOT cool. It doesn’t matter how pretty someone’s voice is, or if...

Christopher heard a pair of women gossiping nearby, whispering in disapproving undertones. “… Ramsey was found flirting in a corner with a woman. They had to drag him away from her.” “Who was it?” “His...

For every guy who loves being a dad, there’s another who realizes too late that he’s created something his wife loves more than him.

It is so beautiful to be loved as Laurie loves me; he isn’t sentimental, doesn’t say much about it, but I see and feel it in all he says and does, and it makes me...

best complete”; like a word/phrase that beautifies and gives meaning to a sentence when it is added.

Do You Believe…on this road of lifeon this dayI take younow husband and wife…

Ethan: “You think I’m a hero?”Beth: “Yes.”Ethan: “But lousy husband material?” Like that really mattered to him.Beth: “Don’t sweat it. So was Superman.

There’s a reason why the assumed goal for women in virginity-movement screeds is marriage and motherhood only: The movement only believes that’s the only thing women are meant for.

Traveling in a third-world country is the closest thing there is to being married and raising kids. You have glorious hikes and perfect days on the beach. You go on adventures you would never try,...

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

I mean, what do people talk about when they’re married?” “Their kids, I guess.” “Maybe that’s all they have in common.

12% of people marry because they are completely in love. 88% of people marry just so they are then liable for only half of their rent.

Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to...

He’d passed the longest night of his life locked in mortal combat with his ghosts, calling up and then disavowing twenty years of memories. He would banish that bitch from his heart if it meant...

I mentally bless and exonerate anyone who has kicked a chair out from beneath her or swallowed opium in large chunks. My mind has met their environment, here in the void. I understand perfectly.

Daily I walk around my small, picturesque town with a thought bubble over my head: Person Going Through A Divorce. When I look at other people, I automatically form thought bubbles over their heads. Happy...

Très, très, triste…

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...

Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.

Maybe I need the truth more than I need to hear what I want to hear. Maybe there is almost never a time when you don’t need the truth. Or maybe it’s just that you...

Even the Sun gets tired of rising, but he does it out of love for the Earth…

Whenever there is a conflict between pink and blue, let the pink win. Happiness is more important then colors.

If you behave in a manner that poisons your relationship, don’t be surprised when it dies.

At last! I can rest. I have found my missing half.” When this happens, it is said we have found our soul mate. We are happy and at peace. When we shared ourselves, we were...

Morgan explained about his marriages. He had tried to sell his ex-older wife an encyclopedia years before and well, you guessed it. When she agreed to buy the books he married her on the spot....

Don’t get mad about the infestation of fleas if you keep shopping at the dog pound.

No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they...

If he can’t handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person’s soul.

Those dreaming of the perfect match are outnumbered by those who don’t really want it at all, though perhaps they can’t admit it. After all, our culture makes individual freedom, autonomy and fulfillment the very...

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.

I cannot think that man is meant to find happiness so easily! Happiness is like one of those palaces on an enchanted island, its gates guarded by dragons. One must fight to gain it; and,...

Bride, n. – A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Jesus and Paul knew the Old Testament completely. Their comments about divorce were meant to add to, not replace or change, what was already written in the Old Testament about marriage and divorce.

Marriage is a necessary evil

Those monumental anniversary celebrations aren’t what ultimately determine the actual direction of our marriage. Rather, it’s the here and now. It’s those daily decisions we make individually and together that influence how our relationship actually...

There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she’s given up on changing him and can predict with certainty the shape that the rest of her life with him...

That would be Axelroot all over, to turn up with an extra wife or two claiming that’s how they do it here. Maybe he’s been in Africa so long he’s forgotten that we Christians have...

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course; always charting new course for her loved ones.

I hope you outlive me so I never have to know what life is like without you.

I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me.