Love songs are nothing without exaggeration.

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...

We have a lot of work to do moving the American public to be more supportive of marriage for same-sex couples. And while we do that, we will win some battles and lose others. It...

I take thee… to be my awful wedded husband

When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool,...

When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

There are no guarantees with finally being honest and coming clean with people. Sometimes you don’t win love back. Sometimes you lose the love you had. Sometimes you crush people that cared. Sometimes you break...

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

The married man and the mother of a Christian family, if they are faithful to their obligations, will fulfill a mission that is as great as it is consoling: that of bringing into the world...

Never develop any mysticism, about love; for love itself is a mystic thing that puts you in a mystic situation.

Free love may try to dissolve, and the concubinate to desecrate, the holiest tie, as it pleases; but, for the vast majority of our race, marriage remains the foundation of human society and the family...

A woman must find a husband, otherwise she is at the mercy of the world. If she waits for love and it never arrives, what is to become of her? I consented to Edward’s proposal...

The bottom line with men is: they feel best about themselves when they are solving problems. Therefore, they spend most of their time doing what they are best at while they attempt to ignore the...

Once she had said to him that what they had was grace. Even now, married properly, rank bestowed, it still was. And always would be

We’ve come a long way from the time when the crowning achievement in a woman’s life was her youthful marriage. And many would agree that this represents progress for women. But when did the search...

Living with myself wasn’t all that easy. I was not the young girl I once was. Once upon a time when I looked in the mirror, I saw this happy glow. Now nothing glowed except...

To build a respectful, kind and loving relationship, begin by being respectful, kind and loving to yourself

I ate all of my husbands. First I ate their love, then their will, then their despair, and then I made pies of their bodies – and those bodies were so dear to me!

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

(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...