You know, for a while there we kept horses for the boys, and we had a mare that had broken down. Couldn’t ride it… You could feed it and brush it and water it and...

Modern wife: A position thought to require great ambition to fill. After initially showing some skill at a maid service or department store, the husband takes her home to find that she has risen too...

[Home Economics Textbook from 1950]: “Prepare yourself. Take fifteen minutes to rest so you’ll look refreshed when hubby comes home from work. Touch up makeup and put a ribbon in your hair. He’s just been...

Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties

Indeed, infatuation thrives on image (while love thrives on knowledge).

Hey wedding DJ, there is no way in hell I’m paying you $1,000 when all you’re doing is plugging your iPod into the sound system #AHOLE

For those who are gifted for the soteriological pathway of marriage, it, like every such pathway, naturally offers not only trouble, work, and suffering but the deepest kind of existential satisfaction. Dante did not get...

I did not think you would be angry, Jem burst out, and it was like ice cracking across a frozen waterfall, freeing a torrent. We were engaged, Tessa. A proposal-an offer of marriage-is a promise....

The great aim of dating is to find that one soul who can stand at the bottom of your heart and touch the top of your mind

I wanted to know what it felt like to be loved by the man of my dreams.

It’s like a long-term marriage. There are stresses and strains intermittently, but we are kind of stuck with each other.

AttractionThe whites of his eyespull me like moons.He smiles. I believehis face. Alreadymy body slips down in the chair:I recline on my side,offering peeled grapes.I can taste his tonguein my mouthwhenever he speaks.I suspect he...

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

A wife’s loyalty is tested when her husband has nothing. A husband’s loyalty is tested when he has everything.

Here’s something else to think about: calling when you say you’re going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of love and trust. If he can’t lay this one stupid...

The marriage of a Jewish son is a bittersweet prospect. There is relief, always, that he has navigated the tantalizing and plentiful assemblies of non-Jewish women to whom the children of the Diaspora are inevitably...

A wedding ring is a symbol of commitment; a promise, a pledge, and a vow. The promise is to forsake all others, to stay devoted and true; the pledge is to honor that promise selflessly,...

I tried to knock my wife up, but she’d only let me ring the doorbell. And she made me dress up like the pizza delivery boy while I rang.

This isn’t Sex and the City, and life isn’t a Nicholas Sparks novel. The best kind of love is one that is calming on the spirit, easy on the heart, fulfilling and completing.

Life is never boring when everyday I have weird, silly conversations with my husband that only us understand.

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love...

Ida Says ‘I do’ in Idaho.” It would be about a divorce in Washington State, and the protagonist would be a woman, though I’m not sure what her name should be.

…[A] certain degree of un-understanding (not mis-, but un-) is the only possible sanctuary which one human being can offer to another in the midst of the devastating intimacy of a happy marriage.

Marriage is more than finding the right person…it is being the right person!

every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the world—that is, the necessary gaps through which you interact with family and friends;...

Maybe this is a second doctoral program: advanced learning about life, death, marriage, mothering, family, faith, patience, prayer. My degree will be ‘Doctor of Life,’ and I will be in good company. So many of...

This was fun. We should find out we’re still married more often.””Why, so every day can be a special new plunge into hell?””Nobody I’d rather burn with than you, babe.

Why the fuck would I marry you? I don’t even like you.

Ah specs it’s kase gempmums doan know whut dey wants. Dey jes’ knows whut dey thinks dey wants. An’ givin’ dem whut dey thinksdey wants saves a pile of mizry an’ bein’ a ole maid....

Maybe the best thing we can do for our spouses is give them permission to forgive themselves.

[On what young husbands should say to their wives:] I have taken you in my arms, and I love you, and I prefer you to my life itself. For the present life is nothing, and...

Should I tell her of the moments of joy, the intense pleasure of holding the hand of the one you love and wishing that time would stand still?

Marriage is a team effort. Grow closer to each other as you grow closer to God.

The words marriage and divorce were always used together, like they went hand in hand together.

I don’t want to hear about the endless struggles to keep sex exciting, or the work it takes to plan a date night. I want to hear that you guys watch every episode of The...

When I see him, his frame filling the doorway, I do not feel passion, excitement. I can’t remember if I ever have. He makes me feel comfortable, like a favorite pair of shoes.

The bride waits here,” she said, running her hands along her hair, taking in her image but seeming to drift away. “This is the moment you think about what you’re doing. Who you’re choosing. Who...

ရာဇဝင္အဆက္ဆက္မွာ လူမ်ိဳးအခ်င္းခ်င္းေပါင္းၿပီး လူမ်ိဳးသစ္ျဖစ္လာတာ၊ လူမ်ိဳးတစ္မ်ိဳးက တစ္မ်ိဳးကို မ်ိဳသြားတာေတြ ရွိသားပဲ။ တ႐ုတ္ေခၚေခၚ၊ အဂၤလိပ္ေခၚေခၚ လူေတြလည္း လူလူခ်င္း ေရာေႏွာသြားတာပဲ၊ အေထြးေတာ့ ဘာမွ ကန္႔ကြက္စရာမရွိပါဘူး၊ ဗမာမွ ယူမယ္ စိတ္မကူးပါဘူး။ တကယ္ေတာ့ ဂ်ာမန္ေကာင္းကင္မွာ ဂ်ဴးလူမ်ိဳးေတြ ျပာက်တဲ့ အေငြ႕နဲ႔ ေမွာင္မည္းသြားတဲ့ အျဖစ္မ်ိဳးသာ ေၾကာက္စရာ ႐ြံ႕စရာပါ။

They lost Olivia at Newport Beach. The panic made Alice hyperventilate. You were meant to be watching her, Nick kept saying. As if that were the point. That Alice had made a mistake. Not that...

She did understand, or at least she understood that she was supposed to understand. She understood, and said nothing about it, and prayed for the power to forgive, and did forgive. But he can’t have...

But if as you read this book you’re saying to yourself: “I’d rather be miserably married than be alone.” Well young lady, take out your clown shoes and buckle your seat belt – it’s going...

When a man’s girlfriend’s parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they’re not really concerned about him; they’re concerned about their daughter’s tummy.

A portion of guilt is standard issue for southern boys; our whole lives are convoluted, egregious apologies to our mothers because our fathers have made us such flawed husbands.

Bushwhacked, I examine my hands. Same hands. Rings still there but no longer valid.

Flannel shirts should be outlawed for ex husbands; I realize this now. Flannel shirts are to women what crotchless panties are to men.

If you want kids, choose your girlfriend like your future child has the deciding vote.

Attitude determines Altitude.Winners never quit.No venture, No gain.

Faith is one of only two things in mankind’s consciousness that defies discussion. The other is one’s marriage.

I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was...