A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.

He doesn’t stop talking for most of the three-hour flight about his time in “‘Nam.” Finally the conversation slows, and I ask him what he’s done since leaving the army. He sums it up in...

When that bastard calls back, you tell him he’s won this round. I’ll marry him. But I don’t take well to being blackmailed, and tell him I intend to spend the rest of my life...

Relationships are not additive, but multiplicative because you connect with his/her childhood experiences, past relationships, thoughts on money and more.

No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we’ll start with forever.

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

In any relationship, there will be frightening spells in which your feelings of love dry up. And when that happens you must remember that the essence of marriage is that it is a covenant, a...

To prove to [her friend, Swedish diplomat Count] Gyllenborg that she was not superficial, Catherine composed an essay about herself, “so that he would see whether I knew myself or not.” The next day, she...

I always looked for someone who can appreciate my feelings, to understand me and above all feel very happy to have my love, it took me years to find you but today I feel happier...

They throw rice at a new marriage, then give him beans in a divorcement.

He remembers which sisterI like least and askshow she is doing.(lines 9-11 of the poem ‘Divorce’)

If you adore her, you must adorn her. There lies the secret of a happy marriage.

Marriage is the union of two ‘I’s to form a ‘V’. Both ‘I’s have to tilt equally to make a good ‘V’. ‘I’s standing tall can never make a ‘V’.

We are creatures whose behavior cannot be simply explained as a striving for survival and happiness, for release of tension and contentment.

He wanted revenge and I knew he would not stop until he got it. I had to hope he would run out of fuel.

Marry the person who makes you feel like you can face life together. Because that’s what it’s about. It’s about facing life together.

Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.

You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable.

[F]rom my years of understanding … I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., unmarried], which I assure you for my own part hath hitherto best contented myself and I...

I believe marriage was designed to do what only marriage can do – point us to Jesus by modeling his love for us. This, though, isn’t easy or even preferable. This means the sin in...

Women who say that they have met the most amazing guy in the world are only saying that because they haven’t lived with them yet.

Do not measure the number of tragedies you suffer, quantify the success derived from the.

The most welcome and painful moments of the life is within marriage.

Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.

I couldn’t pay the prostitute, and that’s the truth. She could have asked my wife, who would have told her that I’m no cheat.

She dated me for 3/4 yrs and liked me so much that she married me and disliked me so much that she divorced me after 4 yrs.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Catholics don’t believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There’s always Confession, after all.–Brianna Fraser to Roger MacKenzie

…they who exchange their independence for the sweet name of Wife must be prepared to find all is not gold that glitters……Eş gibi tatlı bir kelime karşılığında özgürlüklerinden vazgeçenler, parlayan her şeyin altın olmadığını görmeye...

My wife loves window shopping. As for me, I’m more into curtains.

… gay marriage rights coming and going, always being an issue for the voting public when it should be an individual‘s private choice.

Til death do us part….The words wrap around my mind like soft, silk binds, and I cherish the imagery. Eternity can only be with this man – there will never be another who knows me...

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

In business I play hardball, because softball is for high school girls. People don’t know I used to be a pitcher. I was full of water, until my ex wife poured it all out.

An anniversary is where you look back at having either fulfilled Cinderella or Lord of the Flies.

Like the muscles knew from the beginning that it would end with this, this inevitable falling apart… It’s sad, but a relief as well to know that two things so closely bound together can separate...

I don’t have to get married to grow up!

Never marry who doesn’t love you,If you do it, your ordeal will turn into hell.

Make the living worthwhile”…have we forgotten the very essence of that? Have we forgotten to live for someone else, that doing so IS what makes a living worthwhile?

Natalie, you’re not as nearly wise as you think you are, she thought wistfully. Take the man who would make sacrifices for you, who would love you for who you are and not for what...

God has given you two ears–that should tell you something about the importance of listening.

Nobody wants to lose a job or a marriage.

They say being in love and loving someone are two different things, right? I mean, you love your best friend, but you love your husband, right? Falling in love with someone is easy. It’s loving...

‎I know you’re still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You’re a very very bright girl. Truly you are. You can be anything you want...

When you start loving, your character becomes like the positive side of a magnet and the one you love becomes negative, that pulls people close to you in union, and becomes very difficult to separate.

And she’s got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

The First Bond of Society is Marriage.

She stood above the sink and broke the Swarovski glass frame – a wedding gift – with her hands. Her thumb got cut. As blood drops fell into the sink, like mercury balls she thought,...

I don’t know how many years it’s been since I last slept with my husband. I was faithful, stupid and so awfully lonely that I’ll gobble you up if you’re nice to me. Or kill...

A fast car can make women ‘like’ a man; and a man ‘like’ women … fast.