The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle, but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares...

I don’t have to get married to grow up!

Never marry who doesn’t love you,If you do it, your ordeal will turn into hell.

Make the living worthwhile”…have we forgotten the very essence of that? Have we forgotten to live for someone else, that doing so IS what makes a living worthwhile?

Natalie, you’re not as nearly wise as you think you are, she thought wistfully. Take the man who would make sacrifices for you, who would love you for who you are and not for what...

God has given you two ears–that should tell you something about the importance of listening.

Nobody wants to lose a job or a marriage.

They say being in love and loving someone are two different things, right? I mean, you love your best friend, but you love your husband, right? Falling in love with someone is easy. It’s loving...

‎I know you’re still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You’re a very very bright girl. Truly you are. You can be anything you want...

When you start loving, your character becomes like the positive side of a magnet and the one you love becomes negative, that pulls people close to you in union, and becomes very difficult to separate.

And she’s got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

The First Bond of Society is Marriage.

She stood above the sink and broke the Swarovski glass frame – a wedding gift – with her hands. Her thumb got cut. As blood drops fell into the sink, like mercury balls she thought,...

I don’t know how many years it’s been since I last slept with my husband. I was faithful, stupid and so awfully lonely that I’ll gobble you up if you’re nice to me. Or kill...

A fast car can make women ‘like’ a man; and a man ‘like’ women … fast.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

I can think of no more dangerous a position than to learn to tolerate evil in order to become accustomed to reality.

The snag about marriage is, it isn´t worth the divorce.

I know my vision is impaired and cannot be trusted with even the simplest tasks, much less dating. Not that I´ve come within talon distance of a man.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness; a tender look which becomes a habit.

Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you’ve made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another’s....

You don’t know when you’re twenty-three.You don’t know what it really means to crawl into someone else’s life and stay there. You can’t see all the ways you’re going to get tangled, how you’re going...

It’s unfortunate that those that oppose the marriage amendment are using issues like domestic violence as scare tactics.

I absolutely believe that a marriage is strictly between a man and a woman. I still believe that completely.

But marriage is more than just two people. Marriages are a combination of two people, their closest family members, and the nearest and dearest of friends that enter that circle of love.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

She put on her lace collar. She put on her new hat and he never noticed; and he was happy without her.

Marriage is deep. Don’t marry someone shallow, it will cause both of you to drown

When you settle for anything short of the best life God wants to offer you, then you have been tempted to remain safe and the accountability for not changing your life becomes your prison of...

Mr. Hill characterizes 69 bills being introduced in the House from the period of Oct. 24, 2004 to June 20, 2005, which received Royal Assent as a skimpy agenda. We’ve sustained over 40 votes of...

While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.

I know what it feels like to miss everything about him–the way he smells, the way his mouth curls up when he laughs, his voice.

Being with you is like living a dream.

Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at...

If all the women over the world have been permitted to be married to only one man, except one woman. He’d love to marry that woman. That is the imprint of man

Uncommunicated expectations are the shame of relationships.

Very occasionally, a simplified form of communion and of adult baptism for new members of the church would be enacted but no Separatist was ever married in church, because there is no hint of a...

New Rule: If you’re one of the one-in-three married women who say your pet is a better listener than your husband, you talk too much. And I have some bad news for you: Your dog’s...

Oh, I forgot to tell you the rest of it—he’s a widower now, so they can ride off together into the sunset, their wedding rings glinting.

That hedge provides almost complete privacy from cars and pedestrians, and I would bet he and his wife do it more than the national average.

A Godly mother`s seed of faith yields a bounty of faithfulness.

It was impossible not to fall in love with him.

We are now parents. The love for our offspring has opened up fresh fountains of love for each other. Edwin Stanton to his wife.

Alexia figured, delightedly, that this meant he did, in fact, tend to traipse around his private apartments in the altogether. Marriage was becoming more and more of an attractive prospect.

In its various forms, so far as we know them, Love seems always to have a deep significance and a most practical importance to us little mortals. In one form, as the mere semi-conscious Sex-love,...

Whom she will be my next wife, will marry my attorney on paper and marry me on the bed.

Maybe our marriage is bound to be a fight, but it will have its compensations. Fights that end in bed have their own singular excitement, remember.

People only get married when they’ve no other option, out of panic or desperation or so as not to lose someone they couldn’t bear to lose. It’s always the most conventional things that contain the...

Encouragement requires empathy and seeing the world from your spouse’s perspective. We must first learn what is important to our spouse. Only then can we give encouragement. With verbal encouragement, we are trying to communicate,...