The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it

Your relationship may be “Breaking Up,” but you won’t be “Breaking Down.” If anything your correcting a mistake that was hurting four people, you and the person your with, not to mention the two people...

To be faithful to your wife is wisdom but to acquire concubines is like signing your euthanasia

Even as rowers must subsume their often fierce sense of independence and self-reliance, at the same time they must hold true to their individuality, their unique capabilities as oarsmen or oarswomen or, for that matter,...

Conviction says, ‘My behavior was wrong.’ Satan, on the other hand, floods our hearts with shame. Shame says, ‘There is something wrong with me.

The only constant in our marriage is the edge of the cliff we’re hanging on to, killing time until we tire ourselves out and give in to our inevitable collapse.

There was nothing in life harder or more important than agreeing every morning to stay the course, to go back to your forgotten self of so many years ago, and to make the same decision.

Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There’s no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.

It’s important to have a husband that lives and believes the same way you do. Otherwise, you’re asking for problems.

Grow up, Bailey.””That is precisely what I’m doing,” Bailey says. “I don’t care if you don’t understand that. Staying here won’t make me happy. It will make you happy because you’re insipid and boring, and...

The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle, but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares...

I don’t have to get married to grow up!

Never marry who doesn’t love you,If you do it, your ordeal will turn into hell.

Make the living worthwhile”…have we forgotten the very essence of that? Have we forgotten to live for someone else, that doing so IS what makes a living worthwhile?

Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature. To marry is the biggest risk in human...

How did so many women get to this unhappy place of not understanding how truly “simple” men are in their requirements and how much benevolent power their wives have over them? Why did notions like...

Just as water is the only thing that can relieve thirst in the desert, the provision of God’s Word is the only thing that can satisfy our spiritual thirst.

Samuel Johnson said a second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience,” Kirkland said.

It is Jesus that The Proverbs 31 Lady seeks when she dreams of happiness; He is waiting for her when nothing else she finds satisfies her; He is the beauty to which she is so...

Most men wait to move until victory is guaranteed.

It’s the same thing with faith, by the way.” We don’t want to get stuck having to go to services all the time, or having to follow all the rules. We don’t want to commit...

Although sex was something they both regarded as perilous, marriage had, by contrast, seemed safe– a safe house in a world of danger; the ultimate haven of two solitary, fearful souls. When you were single,...

We have talked about Suzy and about her last days, but it’s as if our lives stopped then and there. If I say anything to him about feeling lonesome, he goes outside and does some...

My route, Sior Francis—and don’t be surprised when you hear it—my route when I set out to find God… was… laziness. Yes, laziness. If I wasn’t lazy I would have gone the way of respectable,...

A civilized woman’s demands: A man who will (1) make her come … sometimes; but (2) pay the bills … at all times.

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

Mary Farquhar, who always flirts with her own husband across the dinner-table. That is not very pleasant. Indeed, it is not even decent . . . and that sort of thing is enormously on the...

«Hai il dono di comparire proprio quando la mia mente è piena del tuo nome e perfino della tua immagine. Ma, Stephen, mio caro, sei così pallido e magro! Ti danno da mangiare? Sei stato...

How do you know? How best to ensure his nervous breakdown?” I ask.”Keep going,” Christian says. “Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that.

The two of you, there’s something uncanny about the way you two are with each other. I mean everything–the way you look at each other, the way she relaxes when you put your hand on...

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

In a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people to one another has become difficult and rare. Yet, by its scarcity, the beauty and value of this exchange have...

To me, the simplest gift that a husband or a wife can do for their partner is to remind them of their precious visions, goals and dreams. What a gift that is to have a...

It is too late for me to learn your wisdom in this matter. From the time I knew aught, I have lived with a knight and his lady whose love lit and warmed the dark...

Marriage should liberate, not incarcerate. Real love shouldn’t limit a person’s potential, it should expand it.

My friend, love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Serve her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her. Are you willing to do that?

…the social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a...

Yes, faith; it is my cousin’s duty to make curtsy and say ‘Father, as it please you.’ But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and...

What is it that you want from me?

The forsaking of all others is a keeping of faith, not just with the chosen one, but with the ones forsaken. The marriage vow unites not just a woman and a man with each other;...

Every romantic woman dreams of Willoughby. However, every wise woman’s heart knows Colonel Brandon would take care of her when she was sick, love her when she was well and know her worth every day...

In love; it’s only those who trust each other, who can make it until the end.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

People falling in love for one reason may fall out of love due to another reason. However, if faith or trust is the basis of love, it does not break easily. Often people use all...

We watched each other evolve into parents, with all the fear, rage and confusion evolution can involve. Our eight-year-old is the incarnation of our union; we are forever fused by her blood. My old take...

I can’t help but notice that you keep writing love poetry to my wife. Well, you see, I married her, which makes her my wife. You know what you might want to try? Writing some...

At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.

At times, it felt so odd being with a man in such an intimate way who was not my husband.

I’m going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life....