In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

among married couples the person who actually makes out the mortgage check is likely to be more cautious about spending money than the person who doesn’t. There is something sobering about sending away that much...

He had to get inside. It was essential that he know everything, the routes she took, her schedule, and the lay of the land. The silver moon glowed overhead, mocking him. Somewhere in the trees...

Marriage is love put to it’s ultimate test – the grindstone of life. Where the idealism of love meets the everydayness of marriage.

I had no intention of forsaking my wedding vows. I had strong morals and never could have imagined going against them. I was never even tempted to stray.

There is no such thing as a “broken family.” Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes...

In all things in this life, we are told “It’s okay if you don’t make it the first time!”, “It’s fine if you don’t get it right the first time, just try again and again!”...

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

(Response to King Erik XIV of Sweden’s proposal of marriage:)”[W]hile we perceive … the zeal and love of your mind towards us is not diminished, yet in part we are grieved that we cannot gratify...

The next time you feel like withdrawing, make a decision to take action and fight the defense mechanism that says to keep your feelings inside. Let those feelings out for goodness sake. Jump on the...

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

People sometimes ask me why I wrote this as a novel instead of as a nonfiction book, … It’s because the terrain that I’m exploring, the emotions, aren’t documented, as is the case in most...

It isn’t a bit of use my pretending I’m not crying, because I am… Pause to mop up. Better now.Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It...

It’s hard to say which I like more, the perfectly happy days or the hours right after we’ve ended a good fight.

I love firm hugs. Statues are so affectionate. Well, at least compared to my ex wife.

My wife died of someone trying to help her. He helped her find her way off a bridge and into a chained and locked metal trunk. Then he had the audacity to not accept a...

…marriage is foremost a vocation. Two people are called together to fulfill a mission that God has given them. Marriage is a spiritual reality. That is to say, a man and a woman come together...

Marriage is one sweet way in which one can taste heaven on earth. Similarly, I can also become hell on earth.

A good marriage is good because one or both of them have learned to overlook the other’s faults, to love the other as they are and to not attempt to change them or bring them...

I’m sure I look memorable in my tuxedo, and she looks gorgeous in her wedding gown. I’ve wanted to marry her since I first met her. And being the best man doesn’t make me feel...

I keep my heart in my hope chest. Other items in there are clothes, towels, silverware, and all the love I have to offer my future wife. I must specify that my love is hand...

The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards;...

…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.

When I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.

Them lady poets must not marry, pal.

Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice...

She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn’t talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He...

The difference between sex with David and sex with Stephen is like the difference between science and art. With Stephen it’s all empathy and imagination and exploration and the shock of the new, and the...

there is a string of Rutledge’s past mistresses who would undoubtedly testify there is nothing wrong with his carrot.”Alors, he is a virile man . . . she is a beautiful woman . . ....

I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of...

But, perhaps, I should have known then, I should have known that night, standing in the kitchen, that foul meat in the air- looking back on it now, I see that it was the end...

It takes two to tango”; one dictates the steps and the other executes them effectively. That is how a great show is made.

Do You BelieveDo you believethat I have loved yousince the dawn of time?Do you believethat we were destinedto be intertwined?…

… I will say this. Marriage is work. It’s hard work. Harder than anything else you’ll ever do. Believe me, I know. And do you want to know why?’ James nodded and Ben Latrobe leaned...

Hopefully, your marriage will bring added dimensions to love. Hopefully, your unique love will bring new meaning to all our lives. That success cannot be hidden. Good improves love. Evil poisons love. Nothing proves this...

You know what my mum once said?’ said Rosie… ‘She said that if a just-married couple put a coin in a jar every time they make love in their first year, and take a coin...

If someone doesn’t like what you bring to the table in a relationship, let them eat alone.

Love is found in the ocean breeze.

The boring thing with ‘No sex before marriage’ is that kids will never get to attend their parents’ wedding.

I’m not married,” he said softly, “because I can’t stomach the idea of marrying a woman inferior to me in mind and spirit. It would mean the death of my soul.

And there is certainly nothing courageous about creating a Brave New definition of marriage that will lead to more innocent children being placed in homosexual households that are fatherless or motherless by design–and schools teaching...

Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil.

I feel angry but not homocidal; this may be unlooked-for progress.

Naturally, I do blame Françoise. I blame her for having N in the first place. She was young, she was beautiful, she was married to a doctor, and she was intelligent. She could have abstained...

A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one’s own needs to that of the other’s, in the expectation that the other will do the same.

Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you...

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one’s other self listening.

I thought I would die without you, in reality I was reborn…

Children have rights outside their mother’s womb without having to be victim’s of Domestic Violence inside their mother’s womb.

Nobody knows you as well as our spouse. And that means no one will be quicker to recognize a change when you deliberately start sacrificing your wants and wishes to make sure his or her...