Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn’t cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn’t...

There’s the emotional work that comes with living with someone who’s not you and who therefore has different preferences ans styles of communicating. She might prefer to talk for three days straight if that’s what...

There might have been prettier women in the room but, when she turned those babies on, fluttered her eyelashes, I was hers. It had taken me nearly fifteen years to extinguish their light. Now, when...

Why should love require a contract? Why put yourself into the clutches of the state and give it power over you? Why invite lawyers to fuck around with your assets? Marriage is for the immature...

First, they set the hook with mind-bending kinky shit. Then a year later you’re living in a Talking Heads song, dressed like Teddy Ruxpin, living with a strange woman in a big house full of...

Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves.

For every thorn is just as essential to the longevity of the plant as the blossoms.

A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.

Things were different back then. Today if a woman was asked to do the things we did back then, she would revolt, declare that she wasn’t anyone’s slave, wouldn’t be put upon in that fashion....

When you find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will stand in front of you when other’s cast stones, or will...

It is not the hand that rocks the cradle that rules the world; it is the woman that holds the keys to the kingdom.

Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot...

Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels.

It’s a season of life, if your granted peace, freedom and you got the right person to love.

Silent as a flower, her face fell in dismay, aware that the ghost of lust ate and left, sensing that there was a different scent of perfume consuming the room, and that she had numbered...

You don’t need to marry a man with millions. You only need to be your exquisite self.

In one of their quarrels, they had begun calling each other Mister. and Misses., and since then they had never made it up enough to change it.

(Regarding Marriage) Both people need to care deeply about the other person, to put the other’s needs before their own, and to make a daily commitment to that person to stick it out.

Why wasn’t there an etiquette book for runaway wives?

somebody.” I guess you could say I was slightly disappointed at the outcome.

You can talk to me, too.””I do!””But you say so little.””Women talk a great deal to one another. All this gossip and such. I am not a woman.””What do you do when you have to...

The hardest lesson is Clare’s solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; I’ve interrupted some train of thought, broken into the dreary silence of her day. Sometimes I see an expression...

The next morning he drove the stranger’s car half way to the Registry of Motor Vehicles before he realized he could not apply for a driver’s license. He suddenly realized he had left his name...

Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life’s journey…

Admit to yourself women are equal. In fact go ahead and say it. They’re superior. Nuff said.

For [erotically intelligent couples], love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the...

On a potential husband, “All I ask is someone with a little imagination, but they are hard to find.

And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.

Even before we met and long after we’re both gone, my heart lives inside of yours. I’m forever and ever in love with you.

Romantic love has its place but to define relationship solely in romantic terms is like describing marriage only by what a couple does on their honeymoon.

Marriage is a responsibility, not a swimming pool you can jump into and then just go out of afterwards

A defeatist attitude kills almost as many marriages as do affairs.

I want to get married. But first I need to get a divorce.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

My wife and I make love every night, sometimes even to each other.

You can either feed negative thoughts or you can starve the suckers.

Maybe what my sister wanted was to stay here and get married and have a family.Maybe that was her color of extraordinary.

In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most vivid representation of your own personality. Your spouse becomes the most gleaming possible...

Use the darkness of your past to propel you to a brighter future.

rapture” – words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books.

This is your heart.Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key.

Maybe love, unfathomable love, was too much for people, so they had traded it for something easier.

He is but as the stubble of the field, and yet he has no beard.

As a house can be only be built satisfactorily and durably when there is a foundation, and a picture can be painted only when there is something prepared to paint it on, so carnal love...

I’m not the marrying kind -“St. Vincent snorted. “No man is. Marriage is a female invention.

My husband and I have never considered divorce… murder sometimes, but never divorce.

During this time I came to understand a lot about myself, human beings, faith and the meaning ofmarriage and friendship. The world is not black and white, nothing is what it seems, and we are...

Taking the Right Decision in any situation only requires TWO major ingredients:Critical Thinking and Grace.Critical Thinking is like ‘Works’ and Grace is like ‘Faith’. So if “Faith without Works is dead,” then same, I believe,...

And how do you explain to your wife that you don’t have all the answers, and that you might not know what you are doing, and that you are afraid you are going to fail?...

Marriage is give and take. You’d better give it to her or she’ll take it anyway.