What keeps the marriage going is your commitment to your spouse’s holiness.

Every culture has some ritual for joining two people together and making them stay that way, and ours is giving tax breaks.

The papers say we’re married, but it’s the heart that writes the love story.

Better be a desperate single with options than a desperate married with no options.

The children we bring into the world are small replicas of ourselves and our husbands; the pride and joy of grandfathers and grandmothers. We dream of being mothers, and for most of us that dreams...

In my day, husbands and wives showed each other a suitable level of indifference.

As soon as we confront concrete marriages with other foreign images-such as well-being, happiness, a home for children-marriage appears to be senseless, withered, moribund, and kept alive largely by a great apparatus of psychologists and...

I could only defend myself so much. It was my word against his. There was no evidence, nor was there any proof. My word meant very little.

Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase “happily ever after.” Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about marriage is forever happy. There are moments of bliss, to...

The moment we decide to throw more energy into fighting for our mate than with him, the crack of a fist on the enemy’s jaw splits the ears of angels.

On page 607, alluding to the end of my first marriage (and carefully remembering to state that that’s none of his business), he very sweetly says that I ‘might leave a wife, but not a...

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

There’s a beautiful poem at the beginning of a collection of books we call the Bible. In that poem, it is written: “Then God said, ‘Let us make man.’” God then recognized that it was...

The reason why women think men should spend a lot of money on an engagement ring is because women are the ones who get to clean up all the poop (stains and toilet bowl swirls...

Women who seek advice from single women about getting a man is like asking a homeless man how to be rich.

I want to meet and marry a girl with the same last name as me, so I can show how modern and feminist I am by taking on her last name after marriage.

(On getting married at 19) We told ourselves we had forever and we never looked back. The problem was that we never really looked ahead.

I’ve always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

Every family has a destiny to fulfill….Every child is the future of his or her family and nation at large….Every father is a hero to his son (child)…..Fathers are you truly heroes to your children….check...

I know that man started animal husbandry thousands of years ago, and I think it’s disgusting. Men and animals should never be allowed to marry. Or have sex. And maybe not even engage in necking,...

Blood of my Blood,” he whispered, “and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna leave me now, no matter what happens, You are mine, always, if ye will it...

In a shelter meant for battered women, there were only two reasons a person would decide to leave. One, she had decided to launch out on her own and begin a new life. Or two,...

Divorce is the second worst event in a person’s life. The worst event, of course, is marriage.

Even when we are screaming and throwing things, we are friends. Who is the man and who is the woman? Sometimes neither of us knows. The marriage is androgynous — like the closest friendships. It...

To last, a marriage and family must be built on love—love for God, and love for one another.

She’s SINGLE doesnt really mean she’s AVAILABLE.She’s IN A RELATIONSHIP doesnt really mean she’s NOT INTERESTED.She’s ENGAGED doesnt really mean IT’S OVER.IT’S JUST COMPLICATED untill she’s MARRIED!

mais je crois qu’elle aurait tout autant de chances d’être heureuse, si elle épousait Mr. Bingley demain que si elle se met à étudier son caractère pendant une année entière ; car le bonheur en ménage...

Conflict is growth trying to happen.

Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller to fit inside the hopes of the other, until one...

War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.

It was one thing not to want a husband, I realized; it was quite another not to need one for the roof over your head, for your meat and bread, for the shoes on your...

Pop stars AREN’T cool. Cheating on your husband or your wife isn’t cool. Having no modesty with your body and no self-respect is NOT cool. It doesn’t matter how pretty someone’s voice is, or if...

Christopher heard a pair of women gossiping nearby, whispering in disapproving undertones. “… Ramsey was found flirting in a corner with a woman. They had to drag him away from her.” “Who was it?” “His...

For every guy who loves being a dad, there’s another who realizes too late that he’s created something his wife loves more than him.

It is so beautiful to be loved as Laurie loves me; he isn’t sentimental, doesn’t say much about it, but I see and feel it in all he says and does, and it makes me...

best complete”; like a word/phrase that beautifies and gives meaning to a sentence when it is added.

Do You Believe…on this road of lifeon this dayI take younow husband and wife…

Ethan: “You think I’m a hero?”Beth: “Yes.”Ethan: “But lousy husband material?” Like that really mattered to him.Beth: “Don’t sweat it. So was Superman.

There’s a reason why the assumed goal for women in virginity-movement screeds is marriage and motherhood only: The movement only believes that’s the only thing women are meant for.

Traveling in a third-world country is the closest thing there is to being married and raising kids. You have glorious hikes and perfect days on the beach. You go on adventures you would never try,...

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

I mean, what do people talk about when they’re married?” “Their kids, I guess.” “Maybe that’s all they have in common.

12% of people marry because they are completely in love. 88% of people marry just so they are then liable for only half of their rent.

Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to...

He’d passed the longest night of his life locked in mortal combat with his ghosts, calling up and then disavowing twenty years of memories. He would banish that bitch from his heart if it meant...

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.