I mentally bless and exonerate anyone who has kicked a chair out from beneath her or swallowed opium in large chunks. My mind has met their environment, here in the void. I understand perfectly.

Daily I walk around my small, picturesque town with a thought bubble over my head: Person Going Through A Divorce. When I look at other people, I automatically form thought bubbles over their heads. Happy...

Très, très, triste…

I don’t know why we stopped reading together, but gradually we were not doing it regularly, and then without realizing it was happening we were reading different books, and gradually we came not to care...

Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.

Maybe I need the truth more than I need to hear what I want to hear. Maybe there is almost never a time when you don’t need the truth. Or maybe it’s just that you...

Even the Sun gets tired of rising, but he does it out of love for the Earth…

Whenever there is a conflict between pink and blue, let the pink win. Happiness is more important then colors.

If you behave in a manner that poisons your relationship, don’t be surprised when it dies.

At last! I can rest. I have found my missing half.” When this happens, it is said we have found our soul mate. We are happy and at peace. When we shared ourselves, we were...

Morgan explained about his marriages. He had tried to sell his ex-older wife an encyclopedia years before and well, you guessed it. When she agreed to buy the books he married her on the spot....

Don’t get mad about the infestation of fleas if you keep shopping at the dog pound.

No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they...

If he can’t handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person’s soul.

Those dreaming of the perfect match are outnumbered by those who don’t really want it at all, though perhaps they can’t admit it. After all, our culture makes individual freedom, autonomy and fulfillment the very...

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.

I cannot think that man is meant to find happiness so easily! Happiness is like one of those palaces on an enchanted island, its gates guarded by dragons. One must fight to gain it; and,...

Bride, n. – A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Jesus and Paul knew the Old Testament completely. Their comments about divorce were meant to add to, not replace or change, what was already written in the Old Testament about marriage and divorce.

Marriage is a necessary evil

Those monumental anniversary celebrations aren’t what ultimately determine the actual direction of our marriage. Rather, it’s the here and now. It’s those daily decisions we make individually and together that influence how our relationship actually...

There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she’s given up on changing him and can predict with certainty the shape that the rest of her life with him...

That would be Axelroot all over, to turn up with an extra wife or two claiming that’s how they do it here. Maybe he’s been in Africa so long he’s forgotten that we Christians have...

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course; always charting new course for her loved ones.

I hope you outlive me so I never have to know what life is like without you.

I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me.

I tend to make my joy a private experience and hoard all the fruit for myself, forgetting that the tree doesn’t eat its own fruit but presents it to others.

People seem to set there standards to high. They let Society distort there idea of finding that life partner.If you’re willing to let go of the conformity and individualize your ideas that’s when you will...

Every success and failure of any relationship is two-sided. No matter how thin, the pancake always has two sides. Yes, I blew my marriages. And so did they.

He could totally be your boyfriend,” [Angel] went on with annoying persistance. “You guys could get married. I could be like a junior bridesmaid. Total could be your flower dog.””I’m only a kid!” I shrieked....

My dad, who my mom always refers to as DH for Darling Husband, was protrayed as a ‘let’s look on the bright side of things’ kind of guy, the pillar my everbumbling mother leans on...

Mara, that’s the life I want to give you. That’s what I’m offering you. I want to fill you life with color and warmth. I want to fill it with light. Give me a chance

If you are one of earth’s inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what happiness must send the warm tears to their eyes, each time they see...

The groom should not see you in the dress just before the wedding, that’s bad luck. You know what’s worst luck? Is getting married, itself. I’ve read studies. It’s like 2 out of 3 of...

Marriage is a partnership; not a sole proprietorship.

As soon as we met, she probably imagined herself marrying me. Then within five minutes, she was probably already envisioning divorce.

Hortense and Berthe nodded, as though profoundly impressed by the wisdom of their mother’s pronouncements. She had long since convinced them of the absolute inferiority of men, whose sole function was to marry and to...

Arik and Cadie always knew they wouldn’t be one of those couples that let problems between them fester. They would immediately address any issues that arose, bring them out into the open, discuss them until...

Lucy could see that love unconfined, love outside convention, might well make a woman an unfit mother; you were one kind of woman or another: you were good or you were bad, as the world...

Your ultimate goal for marriage is that both of you—as husband and wife—commit to keep growing spiritually.

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and...

Then Frederica went towards him, holding out her hand, and he raised his eyes from Felix’s eager countenance, and smiled at her, causing Mr. Moreton to suffer a shock. It was not at all the...

What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering...

(On having being just proposed to)’Have you been thinking of this for long?’ she managed jerkily, praying for the shock to recede so that she could behave a little more normally.’Let’s say it crept up...

See, a marriage needs love. And God. And a little money. That’s all. The rest you can deal with. It’s not about black or white. It’s about God and don’t let anyone tell you different....

Love is a spark of light.

My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if in a tornado’s aftermath, birdsong, sunshine, supersaturated colors, wreckage all around,...

It’s a perfect marriage between HUD and Habitat in that the grants offer families a hand up, not a hand out.

Communication is not so much about what you say, as what you don’t say.