Give me my heart; I am killing my existence without it.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what...

I want to get married, but first I’ll have to get a divorce.

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the “hour” of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving...

Compromising is the only path that all happy couples travel on.

Two former students of mine are getting married. Congrats, grandpa and grandpa!

One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.

Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody—so utterly well known...

Families that feel together, heal together.

Done.

You know what getting married is? It’s agreeing to taking this person who right now is at the top of his form, full of hopes and ideas, feeling good, looking good, wildly interested in you...

Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he’s a baby.

We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.

What kind of wedding would you like?” he asked, and stole another kiss before she could reply.”The kind that turns you into my husband.” She touched the firm line of his mouth with her fingers....

She was the curator of her marriage, collector of swift quotes and unremarked-upon sensations.

Your positive impact on the generations to come will be directly related to the ministry you have in that little place called home.

When you look back and realize there is no way you would have had a better life with another person, that’s when the relationship or marriage becomes worth it.

As long as you have goals to accomplish in this life, you will not truly be complete.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

The goal of marriage is not happiness, it is holiness…There is no mechanism whereby God can sanctify a person more than having them live in close proximity to another imperfect person….Our fundamental problem is that...

I suppose he’s a bit young,” he said.

Longed for him. Got him. Shit.

Deb and I were married on a snowy night – wind cross-wove a veil of snow for her then threw confetti at us as we left the lighted church…

Non mi piacciono i matrimoni combinati. Ci sono sbagli dei quali non bisognerebbe mai poter incolpare i propri poveri genitori.

Dylan, you’re my life. You.

I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.

I saw my reflection in their eyes, but not the men themselves, not clearly. This preserved the idea that all intelligent and even vaguely attractive men were essentially good. Delusion detest focus and romance provides...

We talk. Darlene worries aloud that her husband works with a lot of attractive young women; she herself is fourty. I tell her it´s not about age. “Little thing called character,” I say, thinking, Accepting...

If the ultimate goal is lasting love, women are going to have to become comfortable with sacrifice and capitulation. Because those are the underpinnings of a long-term marriage – for both sexes.

Never before in history had societies thought that such a set of high expectations about marriage was either realistic or desirable. Although many Europeans and Americans found tremendous joy in building their relationships around these...

I tell him his business, all business, is legalized throat-cutting, like marriage is legalized fornication.

I’d already sensed the attraction between us. it was apparent from the first time we met. But that sort of attraction was so usual that it didn’t rate serious attention, let alone concern. When the...

See I’m the reckless and wild one who saves him from being boring. It’s why we’re perfect for each other. We balance. – Madame Selena

…be more than a person she would settle for… be a person she would yearn for.

I love you, Daisy. I love you so much I hurt.

Even God forgives stupidity. So many married people, heaven would be a ghost town otherwise.

When you choose to forgive the same people over and over again you do so because you don’t want to believe your time loving them was wasted. Bad relationships over time can become investments, that...

And believe me, darling, there’s no man more faithful than a reformed playboy. They make far better husbands than men who haven’t had time to sow their wild oats before they marry, so go off...

…We must say to ourselves something like this: ‘Well, when Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.” No, he was...

It’s like picking the place you’re going to live for the next fifty years by using a wall map, a blindfold, and what you really, truly, deeply believe is your lucky dart.’ Sullenly Judith said,...

The deceit in loving a woman sometimes, is that most women fall in love with assumed personality, but eventually live with their true character.

The seed of a blue lupin will usually produce a blue lupin. But the seed of a blue-eyed man may produce a brown-eyed bore…especially if his wife has a taste for gigolos.

Frederick left the young couple gazing into each other’s eyes. Revolting, the way otherwise sensible people could carry on, he decided. Something to do with being married, no doubt. Perhaps it damaged the brain.

My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital intimacy, it was because we had not seen it modelled. We lurched from relationship to relationship, dazzled by...

Your skin reminds me of everything beautiful I’ve ever loved…how the moon gets jealous at how you mock her crescent figure with the shape of your mouth…echo of unborn galaxies bounce forth through your vocal...

As I see it, you GET married – but you MAKE a marriage.

But you are my wife!” when I didn’t do something that he wanted me to do. His expectations were not realistic.

Woman study loving him his whole life; Man study loving well, your whole wife

A mother`s job is not complete till she has taught and imbibed God`s Words, and principles into her kids.