Some people may also be working less and not trying as hard to build wealth as they have marriage troubles. Divorce is often a long and messy process.

Dear Eloisa (said I) there’s no occasion for your crying so much about such a trifle. (for I was willing to make light of it in order to comfort her) I beg you would not...

After having so nobly disentangled themselves from the shackles of Parental Authority, by a Clandestine Marriage, they were determined never to forfeit the good opinion they had gained in the World, in so doing, by...

Any marriage is hard work. But what I always say is, “Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.

As you turn into a daddy, soon now, you’ll find that, on marrying, a man and woman start actually living.

Life was not meant to be live alone.

For women, marriages foreclosed often resulted in anaccumulation of booty; for men, these failed projects of implausible optimismwere more likely to manifest themselves in material lack. It washard to resist the metaphorical impression that women...

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

I don’t want to be married just to be married. I can’t think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can’t talk to, or worse, someone I can’t be...

The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.

A good wife always forgives her husband when she’s wrong.

If you will let it, this Blue Willow platter can represent my promise to fill your life with my trust and love and a houseful of children. – Peter Andersen

God lures us into marriage through love and sex and loneliness, or simply the fact that someone finally paid attention – all those reasons that you got married in the first place. It doesn’t really...

First, I’m not getting married, so you can forget the wife. Second, if I was insane enough to get married, I wouldn’t have kids. Third, if I was insane enough to get married and have...

A state Constitutional Amendment is necessary because, as we have seen elsewhere, activist judges have overturned statutory protections of marriage.

When we reach our highest potential, we will find our highest love.

Marriage did not hold much interest for Urmila but it was a social discipline she would have to conform to. She would rather seek knowledge instead of a suitor.

When coming to sex: First served, first come.

Dating is a man-made ideology: if having a lover was a prerequisite to living, one would either be in a relationship, or, six feet under.

The relationship between any two communities in the global economy is not unlike a marriage. As couples counselors advise, relationships falter when two partners are too interdependent. When any stress affecting one partner – the...

Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.

They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed.

The real genesis is forbidden to me, vis-à-vis N´s inability to confess even the mildest transgressions.

The woman who left abusive husbands in the 60’s and 70’s improved the institution of marriage because men now know that women can leave their husbands and the women or men who stay in abusive...

The true love is unconditional.Marriage is a conditional bond.

What good was living if a man didn’t have a family?

Why do people stay together? Putting aside ‘for the sake of the children’, and ‘the habit of years’ and ‘economic reasons’ as lawyers’ nonsense – it’s not much more – if one really does try...

And of course I didn’t know who would marry me now that I’d been where I had been. I didn’t know at all.

It was his wedding day, and then it was any day; it was nothing, and then it was forever.

We simply can’t abandon ship every time we encounter a storm in our marriage. Real love is about weathering the storms of life together.

When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired...

She took comfort in the familiarity of his smell, knowing that if she lost all her possessions and her home, at least she would have her family.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.Act II

It has always been simple, but making it hard was always your way of avoiding pain. If you want to change your life, you have to change what you are doing. It wasn’t his fault,...

It is to be broken. It is to betorn open. It is not to bereached and come to rest inever. I turn against you,I break from you, I turn to you.We hurt, and are hurt,and...

When you feel great delight in someone, meeting their needs and getting their gratitude and affection in return is extremely rewarding to your ego. At those times you may be acting more out of the...

It’s hard to decide matters of the heart, especially when Self-love is rooted in our decisions. You’ll need to balance your needs with the people you love in order to avoid hurting others.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

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

You lose a child and you do understand each other’s grief at first, but if you get out of step with each other, it’s all over. Suddenly each of you is alone.

Orgasm isn’t a goal. It’s the attitude that matters. Abir hasnever even asked how I feel after sex. He has many other concerns.He provides for me and I provide for him, that’s a familiarity whichno...

Hell, I’d even failed with women. Three wives. Nothing really wrong each time. It all got destroyed by petty bickering. Railing about nothing. Getting pissed-off over anything and everything. Day by day, year by year,...

I was physically attacked by a woman who didn’t even know me. Yes, my boyfriend was her former husband, but she tried to ruin me.

Chorus of old men: How true the saying: ‘Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without ’em.

When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I realized how very little I had in common with them...

You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things — useful things.

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

Guys, you should always fight the urge to put your mouth in gear before taking your brain out of park.

Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you ignorantly worship: in all things you appear to me too superstitious. Sir, your...

If we women were particular about men’s characters, we should never get married at all.