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.

In love; it’s only those who trust each other, who can make it until the end.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

People falling in love for one reason may fall out of love due to another reason. However, if faith or trust is the basis of love, it does not break easily. Often people use all...

We watched each other evolve into parents, with all the fear, rage and confusion evolution can involve. Our eight-year-old is the incarnation of our union; we are forever fused by her blood. My old take...

I can’t help but notice that you keep writing love poetry to my wife. Well, you see, I married her, which makes her my wife. You know what you might want to try? Writing some...

At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.

At times, it felt so odd being with a man in such an intimate way who was not my husband.

I’m going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life....

If I get married, I want to be very married.

I want you to know that if I could’ve stayed with you I would have. I fought as hard as I could. I will never understand why I had to be taken from you so...

Getting out of a marriage is rough, though, and not just for the legal / financial complications or the massive lifestyle upheaval. (As my friend Deborah once advised me wisely: “Nobody ever died from splitting...

Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.

I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest — blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband’s life...

The marriage bond is more than a civil contract. It is a reward for loving well.

… Low expectations.

I had this dream about you last night. We were still married. I was giving you a haircut, like I always did, being careful to trim around the scar on the back of your head....

I want my time to be taken up by chores, errands, appointments, and arguments. In other words, I want to get married.

I lay on the bed and shut my eyes, thinking that nobody really likes marriage, that it’s a flawed arrangement, that people get enthusiastic and jump in for a hundred reasons and then, after the...

I just broke up with my girlfriend. My wife will be pleased. But first she’ll be displeased, because she didn’t know I had a girlfriend.

Mr. and Mrs. Foster are not my foster parents. Also, they’re not even married to each other. Mr. Foster is married to a different Mrs. Foster, and Mrs. Foster, the first Mrs. Foster, is married...

We made love like two sand dollars in a vending machine. She said she wanted marriage and kids, and I said all I wanted was a soda.

I fell in love with a beautiful girl, got her pregnant, and then I got married. I wonder whatever happened to that beautiful girl I got pregnant.

Women leave their marriages when they can’t take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.

If a couple isn’t following God’s guidelines for life or being led by the Holy Spirit, disagreements and misunderstandings skyrocket.

Novels are written word by word. If you can write a word, and then another word, you can write a novel—assuming your novel will be two words long. Here’s a two-word romance novel: I do....

There is enough conformity in the world Lord MacCaulay. I doubt that mine, or lack of it, will send the planet from its axis. Meanwhile, my heart does not soar for the riches you set...

To be so bent on Marriage – to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation – is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil,...

Jane says she will devote her whole life to teaching, and never, never marry, because you are paid a salary for teaching, but a husband won’t pay you anything, and growls if you ask for...

We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers.

Commitment is Circumstances

Maybe I’m still the mermaid. Maybe the ocean is your hand.

Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature. To marry is the biggest risk in human...

How did so many women get to this unhappy place of not understanding how truly “simple” men are in their requirements and how much benevolent power their wives have over them? Why did notions like...

Just as water is the only thing that can relieve thirst in the desert, the provision of God’s Word is the only thing that can satisfy our spiritual thirst.

Samuel Johnson said a second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience,” Kirkland said.

It is Jesus that The Proverbs 31 Lady seeks when she dreams of happiness; He is waiting for her when nothing else she finds satisfies her; He is the beauty to which she is so...

Most men wait to move until victory is guaranteed.

It’s the same thing with faith, by the way.” We don’t want to get stuck having to go to services all the time, or having to follow all the rules. We don’t want to commit...

Although sex was something they both regarded as perilous, marriage had, by contrast, seemed safe– a safe house in a world of danger; the ultimate haven of two solitary, fearful souls. When you were single,...