If someone were to ask whether communications skills or meekness is most important to a marriage, I’d answer meekness, hands down. You can be a superb communicator but still never have the humility to ask,...

Think about it this way: While being married is about becoming the WIFE you are meant to be, being single allows you to focus on becoming the WOMAN you were born to be.

Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that’s like supposing the same candle could last you all your life

It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn’t about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and...

More than one thing is never true. People love to say the opposite, love to talk about inner conflict, nuances, levels of complication. But if this last year has taught her anything, it has taught...

You don’t have to make any decisions right now,” Colleen says. “But I’ll tell you this. There’s life after marriage.”~Excerpt from “Mad Dog Justice

A male-female close-friendship hardly differs from a relationship; it takes “relating” to be friends. But sadly, not every relationship has friendship in it. It’s just ironical that two people who are not good enough to...

I’ll bet, … But you know, I look from the outside at this marriage and I say, ‘Jane Fonda did it again. She allowed a man to change her.’

Where darkness had once overshadowed many of us, the radiant light of Christ exposed the truth that not one of us is truly ever alone.

Would you marry you? Be the right person before seeking the right person. Solomon’s bride is carefully chosen for the good of his family, for the good of his kingdom.pg 9

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

He didn’t marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

So many men treat their wives badly, or indifferently, or with barely contained impatience. Josh doesn’t mind– no that’s not right–he insists on openly showing his love and respect for me.

When you lose a friend or a lover, those who remain in your life gain (more of your attention).

The Coalition for Marriage.

When I reach out, you take my hand. When I smile, you mirror the expression.When I triumph, you glory as if it were your own.When I fail, you point to the light at the end.When I...

I should have known then it wasn´t nothing, as he called it. But I was eight months pregnant. No sense closing the barn door now, or so I thought. I swallowed the nothing, straightaway after...

It had all seemed as inevitable as sunset. Instead it was the beauty of the sun glinting upon the scythe.

Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.

In oppressing, one becomes oppressed. Men are enchained by reason of their very sovereignty; it is because they alone earn money that their wives demand checks, it is because they alone engage in a business...

Cursed is the man who ceaselessly loves without fear – He will inevitably fall in love with the devil.

I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.

Abuse Is Not Love;Love Is Unconditional Without Stipulations and Restrictions.

There must be a stronger foundation than mere friendship or sexual attraction. Unconditional love, agape love, will not be swayed by time or circumstances.

Sometimes the comfort of being in a relationship lulls you into mundane complacency; you become irrelevant in each other’s lives. We call this phenomenon ‘growing apart’.

I married a damned cereal killer

Stop looking for your better half! You need to be whole to attract your better whole, if you expect to have a flourishing relationship.

Yes, that’s what my mother used to do.” It went on to talk about how a woman could climb Everest, teach schoolchildren in Cambodia and win the Booker Prize but some people would still think...

Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth.

…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will...

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

In the English language, we have one word for love, which translates into our sexual drive. The ancient Greeks had more than one word for it, including the word agape. It means to compromise or...

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

One of the things that kept our marriage intact was community. Friends who spurred us on to finish strong together. And it’s friends who esteem marriage that will do this; not people who belittle it...

Sometimes we hold on to the good and the better for a very long time that we don’t even know when we allowed the best to slip away from our hands.

Do I think a marriage with him would last? I have my doubts. There, I said it. But marraige is always a risk. And so what if it doesn’t work? Would that make you absolutely...

It was all Mrs. Bumble. She would do it,” urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain that his partner had left the room.That is no excuse,” returned Mr. Brownlow. “You were present on the...

A wholesome mother knows the software to delete, download, upgrade and upload for the best results.

I wanted the fairytale.

Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me.””Do you mean you want a secretary or something?””No, I’m asking you to marry me, you little fool.

[On marriage and permanent attachment:]Well, well — the prizes all go to the women who ‘play their cards well’ — but if they can only be won in that way, I would rather lose the...

First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state of childishness and even, perhaps, feel affection for him. Then, the moment he...

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil — improper influence! What old woman’s cackle is that?””Are you a young lady?””I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as...

Every girl would like to marry a rich husband. I did twice. But what divides girls into two groups is this question – do you first think of money and then love, or vice versa?

The referees made a questionable call. Still, I was ready with an answer and picked up on the first ring. That ring was an engagement ring, and I said yes.

If it’s the last kiss, we’d better make it last. I hope you don’t have anywhere to be, because I have the rest of my life free.

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a...

A fit encomium for marital bliss,” Beaumont said, putting down his knife and fork. “Dancing to a tune one neither likes nor understands, with a partner who thinks you a cadaver.