So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian...

Marriage is the best compromise between nature and culture.

Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.

Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society’s map. What others don’t know about it is what makes it yours.

A man will will never know a woman until he knows her work.

How can you try to score a touchdown but don’t take time to study? How can you expect God to lead you in the right direction of your life if you don’t put in the...

A wife! No one else could love a man who had been trampled on by iron feet. She would wash his feet after he had been spat on; she would comb his tangled hair; she...

Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion.And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential.Have you introduced your intellect to your compassion yet?...

La emoción no es una herramienta para resolver problemas.

People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For that reason alone, it is extremely mean to demand a marriage certificate for life, just for one night of...

Beauty will never fade away from the eyes of those who love one another.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but...

A young woman, newly wed, may find herself in the delightful position of wanting to do nothing without the company of her darling husband. She may indeed discover that she spends all her waking hours...

Though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but in my private...

The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking.

So the fact tht anyone would ever suggest that Arab women are dominated and demeaned is really quite ludicrous. In this part of the world, She’s just Not That Into Him. We’re the ones who...

I don’t know if this happens in all relationships, but I just got so sick of his all too familiar stories. I had heard these stories so many times that I could have recited them...

When you’re a married man, Samivel, you’ll understand a good many things as you don’t understand now; but whether it’s worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when...

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

I am Mrs. William Victor Wallace. I am married to a federal felon whom I love unconditionally.I hold my head high, I take pride in my life and I walk this world without regret.I will...

In a word, live together in the forgiveness of your sins, for without it no human fellowship, least of all a marriage, can survive. Don’t insist on your rights, don’t blame each other, don’t judge...

They will have difficulties to overcome,’ I admitted. ‘Including the differences in their religions. However, marriage is always a chancy business, Katherine. I have known individuals who appeared perfectly suited, by family background, religion, and...

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

It was a love that was not a contract but an affection of the soul.

I have a thing for things that last.

What does religious freedom mean if we would use it as a cover for hate and privilege?

A marriage is a gift. It should be opened up and enjoyed.

Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership.

What kind of husband would I be if I bet against my own marriage?’I smiled. ‘The stupid kind. Didn’t you listen to your dad when he told you not to bet against me?

Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they’ll be even more frightened of marriage than they are presently.

Marriage is not easy, I thought to myself. It’s not supposed to be easy. It’s two different people, from two different backgrounds, trying to build a life together for better or worse. It’s something you...

Love is it’s own protection.

But playing your music as loud as you want and coming home drunk aren’t real life. Real life, it turns out, is diapers and lawnmowers, decks that need painting, a wife that needs to be...

I‘m very aware that my personal life, my marriage, is the source of speculation and interest in the department and with the public. I can live with that. I’m also aware that my husband’s businesses,...

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

A woman cannot ever be sure of not being married till she is buried, Mrs. Doctor, dear, and meanwhile I will make a batch of cherry pies.

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for...

She’d either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she’d once believed him to be.

In other words, it’s one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of “This is me!

Congratulations is a societal burp that follows a positive act. When you graduate AA, you get a congratulations. When you throw back three bottles of whiskey in one night, you do not. For a species...

I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him. This impulse did not end with his death. What ended was the possibility of...

When you listen to your spouse, you are communicating non verbally that they are important to you.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man’s egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most...

When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you’ve worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart...

PROVERBS 18, GOD’S GOODY BAG OF FAVOR. God wants us to find the hidden treasures. When a person “finds” anything, it is implied that the object found is already there but “hidden.” In this case,...

So am I.

I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh.

The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl’s highest calling. I hope I am ready.