Mutuality is accomplished by two whole persons; and if each partner truly intends to be but the fraction of a relationship (thinking my whole makes up half of us) he or she will soon discover...

A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he’s finished.

Do you think it’s possible to finally decide that you really, truly love someone but not end up marrying him?

Marriage and family life give us constant opportunities to deny ourselves for the sake of others. And yet self-denial is not a mask for self-contempt, but the necessary means for achieving self-mastery; for self-mastery makes...

The importance of falling in love lies not in how it feels, but in what it perceives. And as always with our feelings, the key moral issue is how truthful the perception is… Falling in...

I would think it odd, he said, that he had never married. I did not, in fact, think it at all odd–the statistical chances against any woman being prepared to endure both the hairiness of...

The people that truly love us in life don’t fight for us to remain a doormat for others.

Commonsense will never come from following your heart; wisdom is only stored in the mind.

And how am I supposed to find a husband if I can’t have a boyfriend until then?” I asked ironically.

With all the strength; Love encompasses compassion, determination, tolerance, endurance, support, faith and acceptance of whom you love.

Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn’t and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of...

you can’t be value free when it comes to marriage

Marriage is never static. There are peaks and troughs, cycles. It is easy to forget that this shifting landscape is really only ever a reflection of the self. Our capacity for attachment determines the kind...

Terri had already gotten her panties into a bunch just from one little phone call, so he knew coming at her too much too fast would be more trouble than it was worth. He couldn’t...

Marriage is not the beginning of the journey, nor the end – it is the journey.

I didn’t want to get burned. I didn’t want to be the other woman, but I wanted him with all my might.

Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the...

Just start off with the same goals in mind. If you have the same values, same goals then you’ll be on track for the same future.

Where had he been? Drinking, obviously. Then she started cataloging all the ways he was worthless. On fool impulse, as his most potent available argument against Lily, Bud stuck his hands into his coat pockets...

So when modern-day religious conservatives wax nostalgic about how marriage is a sacred tradition that reaches back into history for thousands of uninterrupted years, they are absolutely correct, but in only one respect—only if they...

What is marriage?” Is it the impression and expectation that this man can make me happy—can be a savior that helps me forget the tragedy of my parents’ failed relationship as well as my own...

Properly speaking, altruism is an absurdity. Women are self-sacrificing in direct proportion to their incapacity to offer anything but this sacrifice. They sacrifice what they never had: a self. The cry of the deserted woman,...

And her work! Oh, the thought of being deprived of that! With only his love in return, his love and his amiable domestic tyranny!

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.

My spirit is free. My heart is taken.

When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

Charlie dear, it is I who have to be proud of you. And I am very, very proud of you. You have called me pretty; and as long as I am pretty in your eyes,...

My wife must be stupid. I mean, look, she married me, didn’t she?

Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth. Mrs Miracle

His fingerprints covered my skin.

I fear that this is what long term relationships are all about, at base: full-time role-playing, memorized and inhabited.

M.

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.