She saw the scarlet thread of her lips, the light in her eyes, the family through their love, their children running barefoot in a fresh field.

Marrying for sex is like flying to London for the free peanuts and pretzels. It’s not the point of the thing, is it?

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

At our age, surely there are better things to sustain us, to sustain a marriage, than the brief flame of passion?” …”You are mistaken, Ernest,” she said at last. “There is only the passionate spark....

I still believed he’d love me again somehow, love me that intense, thick way he did, the way that made everything good.

My wife loves me for me, and hates me for her.

Be careful what you say. You can always say you’re sorry, but you can never take back what you said.

Marriage can be made to work if both the partners can see beyond themselves and understand the limitations,needs and abilities of the other person and are willing to embrace the positive and negative aspects of...

I’ve no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn’t have thought of it. It...

Liberating ourselves from the traditional strictures of marriage altogether, and/or transforming those strictures to include all of us — gay, feminist, career-focused, baby crazy, monogamous, non-monogamous, skeptical, romantic, and everyone in between — is the...

Don’t marry a man because he has a billion dollars. Divorce him for it.

I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

You meet a new guy, analyze him, not good for marriage, not good for a relationship, not good for fucking, maybe excepting the very drunk mood, so, conclusion: this is the beginning of a beautiful...

The ultimate relationship is within thyself, knowing that all other relationships are a projection or a reflection of our ability or inability to love.

Marriage is not 50-50. Divorce is 50-50. Marriage has to be 100-100. It isn’t dividing everything in half, but giving everything you’ve got!

Marriage problems are relationship problems, they are the result of how two people interact with each other. You may abandon a troubled marriage, but you will still bring the way you interact with others along...

All I got was the news that he’d married an absolute honey, and an admonition to eat my heart out.

It is lack of communication that leads to unhappy marriage.

No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I’ve been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover. And then, in the midst of near despair,...

He spent the next weeks blocking scenes of the bureaucrat fucking his wife. On the floor with cooking ingredients. Standing, with socks still on. In the grass of the yard of their new and immense...

[Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it’s worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family.

A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. The trick...

It’s never fifty-fifty in a marriage. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works hard to keep things rolling smoothly, someone else sails along for the ride. Someone...

He had no idea about the ‘loving deeply’ part. Scarlet was the one love he’d had. They’d married the weekend after they’d discovered they both like sangria. He’d thought they were waltzing through life and...

if you don’t respect the other person, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don’t know how to compromise, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can’t talk openly about what...

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage – they’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having.

Courtship is an activity whereby one losses oneself … whilst trying to win someone’s love.

Marriage as it should be… two individuals loving the other more than they cared for themselves. Giving and giving until theoretically they should be empty, yet always invigorated with more to give.

I remember one desolate Sunday night, wondering: Is this how I´m going to spend the rest of my life? Marrid to someone who is perpetually distracted and somewhat wistful, as though a marvelous party is...

I want to own this transition, not to simply swallow the shame of it entire. I will push for every little irony.

To keep myself from harming or calling N and to stave off the rage and despair, I focus on my extraordinary son, drink midrange Chardonnay every night after he is asleep, and make a barrage...

When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens,...

We don’t persuade our neighbors by mimicking their angry power-protests. We persuade them by holding fast to the gospel, by explaining our increasingly odd view of marriage, and by serving the world and our neighbors...

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.

Sex is not about genitalia. It’s about relationship. When God said ‘the two shall become one flesh,’ he didn’t mean it only physically.

He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of prisoners on the chain gang.

The Cheesecake Factory is a great business model, but if you take your wife there for your 25th wedding anniversary, you might not reach your 26th.

Bir elmanın bir meyve olduğu, bir babanın baba, bir savaşın savaş olduğu, bir gerçeğin gerçek olduğu, bir yalanın yalan olduğu, bir aşkın aşk olduğu, bir bıkmanın bıkma olduğu, bir başkaldırmanın başkaldırma olduğu, bir sessizliğin bir...

Chip, I know you don’t understand this, but I’d take it as a personal favor if you’d stop trying to marry your mother off to my brothers.

If you love someone, you don’t act like they annoy you. You like them, and you try and make them think they’re the most important person in the world to you.

When you’ve found the right one – when you see him, when you’re with him – you’ll feel like you’re coming home.

Another reason it’s wise for a man to view his marriage and not his job as foundational to his life is the biblical idea of union with his wife. We’re called to work, but we’re...

7 Principles of a Happy MarriageAlways listenBe thereCompromise is necessaryBuild up trustA kiss before sleep, a kiss after wakingNever keep scoreDo things together

Housewife: a position requiring great ambition to fill. Must have the determination to scrub mold, the good taste to distribute a checking account, and the good will to repeat this at a maid service or...

I kiss her ghost, and sleep with the dust on her photograph, next to my bedside.

What made more sense was that the bargain she was bound to was to go on living as she had been doing. The bargain was already in force. Days and years and feelings much the...

True respect means accepting someone and honoring his or her thoughts and feelings.