Actual message in letter I mailed: Congrats on getting married! Here’s a hundred-dollar gift certificate to Amazon.com. You could buy something practical, or you could buy 101 copies of my .99 cents ebook. Just kidding—I...

Just like the way you date in relationship and become convinced before you give a partner your heart, you got to date your PASTOR to know he can be your MENTOR before you give him...

We don’t marry women, he thought; we marry angels, and in this moment or two of the marriage act, the scales fall from our eyes and we see them as they really are, perhaps never...

Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you, and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%.”...

The girl of my dreams got married to someone else. But that’s OK. I don’t need her beside me to keep her locked in the dungeon of my heart.

Finding a proper husband is rather like selecting a hound. They all have more bark than bite, my girl. One day you’ll look across the breakfast table and realize the only option is obedience training....

Is this Jarod? This is Jarod. I’m you—from the future. I’m exactly like you—only better! By the way, congrats on your upcoming wedding! Spoiler alert: divorce

Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior.

How many women are there … who because of their husbands’ harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

So gewiss es ist, dass ich meine Sara ewig lieben werde: so wenig will es mir ein, dass ich sie ewig lieben soll, – soll!

If someone were to ask whether communications skills or meekness is most important to a marriage, I’d answer meekness, hands down. You can be a superb communicator but still never have the humility to ask,...

Think about it this way: While being married is about becoming the WIFE you are meant to be, being single allows you to focus on becoming the WOMAN you were born to be.

Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that’s like supposing the same candle could last you all your life

It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn’t about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and...

More than one thing is never true. People love to say the opposite, love to talk about inner conflict, nuances, levels of complication. But if this last year has taught her anything, it has taught...

You don’t have to make any decisions right now,” Colleen says. “But I’ll tell you this. There’s life after marriage.”~Excerpt from “Mad Dog Justice

A male-female close-friendship hardly differs from a relationship; it takes “relating” to be friends. But sadly, not every relationship has friendship in it. It’s just ironical that two people who are not good enough to...

I’ll bet, … But you know, I look from the outside at this marriage and I say, ‘Jane Fonda did it again. She allowed a man to change her.’

Where darkness had once overshadowed many of us, the radiant light of Christ exposed the truth that not one of us is truly ever alone.

Would you marry you? Be the right person before seeking the right person. Solomon’s bride is carefully chosen for the good of his family, for the good of his kingdom.pg 9

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

He didn’t marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

So many men treat their wives badly, or indifferently, or with barely contained impatience. Josh doesn’t mind– no that’s not right–he insists on openly showing his love and respect for me.

When you lose a friend or a lover, those who remain in your life gain (more of your attention).

The Coalition for Marriage.

When I reach out, you take my hand. When I smile, you mirror the expression.When I triumph, you glory as if it were your own.When I fail, you point to the light at the end.When I...

I should have known then it wasn´t nothing, as he called it. But I was eight months pregnant. No sense closing the barn door now, or so I thought. I swallowed the nothing, straightaway after...

It had all seemed as inevitable as sunset. Instead it was the beauty of the sun glinting upon the scythe.

Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.

In oppressing, one becomes oppressed. Men are enchained by reason of their very sovereignty; it is because they alone earn money that their wives demand checks, it is because they alone engage in a business...

Cursed is the man who ceaselessly loves without fear – He will inevitably fall in love with the devil.

I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.

Abuse Is Not Love;Love Is Unconditional Without Stipulations and Restrictions.

There must be a stronger foundation than mere friendship or sexual attraction. Unconditional love, agape love, will not be swayed by time or circumstances.

Sometimes the comfort of being in a relationship lulls you into mundane complacency; you become irrelevant in each other’s lives. We call this phenomenon ‘growing apart’.

I married a damned cereal killer

Stop looking for your better half! You need to be whole to attract your better whole, if you expect to have a flourishing relationship.

Yes, that’s what my mother used to do.” It went on to talk about how a woman could climb Everest, teach schoolchildren in Cambodia and win the Booker Prize but some people would still think...

Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth.

…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will...

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

The thought of being completely dependent disturbs people till the moment their eyes are opened to reality.

At the edge you will always remember me, at the edge you will last be remembered, where sanity and insanity come together, for the time, then separates. Like leaves on October trees, that color the...

A woman’s weapon is her tongue.

Successful couples learn the secret of fighting for their relationship rather than against one another.

Marrying the wrong person only denies you both a chance at your soul mate.

They hadnt enjoyed each others company in years. Talking led to screaming and both were sick of the fights.

I had to get used to it because my life was no longer safe and I was no longer protected like I once was.

If you cannot be yourself in a relationship, you no longer have one.