7 Principles of a Happy MarriageAlways listenBe thereCompromise is necessaryBuild up trustA kiss before sleep, a kiss after wakingNever keep scoreDo things together

Waking up next to you is what I like the most, knowing that you belong only to me makes me very happy. Being with you is all I need to be happy.

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.

Civil marriage is a very serious problem. I think that even the religious understands that we must look for some kind of a solution because we have some contradictions. . I’m sure there are many...

Not only is love blind, it’s a little hard of hearing.

Honor your relationships by developing listening skills.

I had my own bed. I slept in it alone, except for those times when we needed—not sex—but sex was how we got there.

Awakening Call: You’re Not in love if it carries a burden.

Years of love, followed by heartache. Those are the years that define me.Those are the years that know– love’s eternity is you.

A virtuous mother sows and sows seeds of greatness with great life in mind.

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any...

Oh, I simply can’t think. When I really want to depress myself, I think of all the brilliant men I know, married to their stupid wives. Enough to break your heart, it really is

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

Because two people in love don’t make a hive mind. Neither should they want to be a hive mind, to think the same, to know the same. It’s about being separate and still loving each...

What tale do you like best to hear?’ ‘Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme – courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe – marriage.

I fell in love the moment I saw her in her grandfather’s kitchen, her dark curls crashing over her Portuguese shoulders. ‘Would you like to drink coffee?’ she smiled.’I’m really not that thirsty.”What? What you...

Love, he realized, was like the daggers he made in his forge: When you first got one it was shiny and new and the blade glinted bright in the light. Holding it against your palm,...

Often we fail to consider the fact that our social, spiritual, and intellectual interests are miles apart. Our value systems and goals are contradictory, but we are in love.

The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy … a razor-wire...

Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.

He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.

Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage

I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can always trust, one always the same, always ready to give comfort, sympathy and the...

I will not just love you till death.I will love you for eternity,this life and the next.

Never Let anyone tell you that you can’t; show them that you can.

Your commitment to follow God’s plan makes a difference in the atmosphere in your home and improves the climate of your marriage.

I want to open a broken marriage repair shop. I’m not a counselor or psychologist, but I am a fan of the magical bonding that occurs between two people when duct tape binds them together...

Bishop Hostettler explained that baptism was not the means by which one is saved, but simply an outward sign of salvation. Just as an Amishman’s beard is an indication of his marriage and commitment to...

In the beginning Dave and Marlene’s relationship had been fantastic. The sex was amazing. There were other good things too of course, but Dave couldn’t always remember exactly what they were. But the sex had...

Eyyia?” said her husband, and Eliane bet Danel heard the mangling of her name as music.”You sound like a marsh frog,” she said, moving to stand before his chair.By the flickering light she saw him...

Because the night you asked me,the small scar of the quarter moonhad healed – the moon was whole again;because life seemed so short;because life stretched out before melike the halls of a nightmare;because I knew...

She had assumed they would see each other every day but she hadn’t really thought about the implications of having an affair with a married man. It wasn’t going to be a normal relationship.

Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all the time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will always be, the tragedy of the bedroom.

Now some of you will say that the two are one and the same – happiness and joy – but this is not so. Happiness is a feeling. Happiness is fleeting, dependent on the moment,...

I’m not eager to jump into marriage again. I’m in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.

It’s weird, marriage. It’s like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their ‘other half.

Saving and pinching to get married, you’re losing the best time of your life.

Yet he hadn’t asked for anything that he hadn’t been willing to give himself. – Mahri

I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought u wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions...

Didn’t Frankenstein get married?””Did he?” said Eggy. “I don’t know. I never met him. Harrow man, I expect.

It seemed to her everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip off down to their souls in front of their long-term partners. It was easier to pretend there was nothing more to know,...

A mission-minded family will serve together. Look for needs in your community and brainstorm with your spouse about how you can partner together to meet those needs in a way that works for you. My...

Men are pigs, darling. I really have every sympathy for women that they actually have to choose one of these arrogant, stupid morons to settle down with and marry.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

Happiness in marriage comes from taking part in a threesome: you, your intimate partner, and God.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

Someday I will have revenge. I know in advance to keep this to myself, and everyone will be happier. I do understand that I am expected to forgive N and his girlfriend in a timely...

This people know where their husbands are. I would like to vomit. I would like to vomit my soul out.

So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s going to be really hard; we’re gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you,...

Did you pick that out?” I asked Dimitri. Honestly, I would have expected him to bend a piece of steel with his bare hands and present her with that.