Whenever there is a conflict between pink and blue, let the pink win. Happiness is more important then colors.

If you behave in a manner that poisons your relationship, don’t be surprised when it dies.

At last! I can rest. I have found my missing half.” When this happens, it is said we have found our soul mate. We are happy and at peace. When we shared ourselves, we were...

Morgan explained about his marriages. He had tried to sell his ex-older wife an encyclopedia years before and well, you guessed it. When she agreed to buy the books he married her on the spot....

Don’t get mad about the infestation of fleas if you keep shopping at the dog pound.

No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they...

If he can’t handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person’s soul.

Those dreaming of the perfect match are outnumbered by those who don’t really want it at all, though perhaps they can’t admit it. After all, our culture makes individual freedom, autonomy and fulfillment the very...

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.

Every culture has some ritual for joining two people together and making them stay that way, and ours is giving tax breaks.

The papers say we’re married, but it’s the heart that writes the love story.

Better be a desperate single with options than a desperate married with no options.

The children we bring into the world are small replicas of ourselves and our husbands; the pride and joy of grandfathers and grandmothers. We dream of being mothers, and for most of us that dreams...

In my day, husbands and wives showed each other a suitable level of indifference.

As soon as we confront concrete marriages with other foreign images-such as well-being, happiness, a home for children-marriage appears to be senseless, withered, moribund, and kept alive largely by a great apparatus of psychologists and...

I could only defend myself so much. It was my word against his. There was no evidence, nor was there any proof. My word meant very little.

Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase “happily ever after.” Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about marriage is forever happy. There are moments of bliss, to...

The moment we decide to throw more energy into fighting for our mate than with him, the crack of a fist on the enemy’s jaw splits the ears of angels.

On page 607, alluding to the end of my first marriage (and carefully remembering to state that that’s none of his business), he very sweetly says that I ‘might leave a wife, but not a...

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

There’s a beautiful poem at the beginning of a collection of books we call the Bible. In that poem, it is written: “Then God said, ‘Let us make man.’” God then recognized that it was...

The reason why women think men should spend a lot of money on an engagement ring is because women are the ones who get to clean up all the poop (stains and toilet bowl swirls...

Women who seek advice from single women about getting a man is like asking a homeless man how to be rich.

I want to meet and marry a girl with the same last name as me, so I can show how modern and feminist I am by taking on her last name after marriage.

(On getting married at 19) We told ourselves we had forever and we never looked back. The problem was that we never really looked ahead.

I’ve always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

Every family has a destiny to fulfill….Every child is the future of his or her family and nation at large….Every father is a hero to his son (child)…..Fathers are you truly heroes to your children….check...

I know that man started animal husbandry thousands of years ago, and I think it’s disgusting. Men and animals should never be allowed to marry. Or have sex. And maybe not even engage in necking,...

Blood of my Blood,” he whispered, “and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna leave me now, no matter what happens, You are mine, always, if ye will it...

In a shelter meant for battered women, there were only two reasons a person would decide to leave. One, she had decided to launch out on her own and begin a new life. Or two,...

Divorce is the second worst event in a person’s life. The worst event, of course, is marriage.

Even when we are screaming and throwing things, we are friends. Who is the man and who is the woman? Sometimes neither of us knows. The marriage is androgynous — like the closest friendships. It...

To last, a marriage and family must be built on love—love for God, and love for one another.

She’s SINGLE doesnt really mean she’s AVAILABLE.She’s IN A RELATIONSHIP doesnt really mean she’s NOT INTERESTED.She’s ENGAGED doesnt really mean IT’S OVER.IT’S JUST COMPLICATED untill she’s MARRIED!

mais je crois qu’elle aurait tout autant de chances d’être heureuse, si elle épousait Mr. Bingley demain que si elle se met à étudier son caractère pendant une année entière ; car le bonheur en ménage...

Conflict is growth trying to happen.

Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller to fit inside the hopes of the other, until one...

See, a marriage needs love. And God. And a little money. That’s all. The rest you can deal with. It’s not about black or white. It’s about God and don’t let anyone tell you different....

Love is a spark of light.

My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if in a tornado’s aftermath, birdsong, sunshine, supersaturated colors, wreckage all around,...

It’s a perfect marriage between HUD and Habitat in that the grants offer families a hand up, not a hand out.

Communication is not so much about what you say, as what you don’t say.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think youcontrol it.

But she left him. That night the angels came back for her, like she’d asked them to. And nobody who saw the heartbreak on Grandpa’s face when Granny breathed her last would have thought for...

Marriage can wait, education cannot.

You did not invent marriage. God did.

What do you think my chances might be of finding a soul mate in the group of you? I’ll be lucky if I can just find someone who’ll be able to stand me for the...

It’s obvious those opposed to traditional marriage are trying to confuse voters.

Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.

It’s one thing to have a divinely inspired love given to you to experience and share; it’s something else altogether to recognize it when it appears. Our job is to go on being humbled and...