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...

Your wife is your life. Don’t let strife thrive in your union.

I had a dream about you. You wore a cowboy boot, and I wore a better fitting hat. You were in a white dress, like a wedding dress, only weddinger. I was wearing a twisted...

To help our youth abide by the principles involved in temple marriage, we must help them to understand that temple marriage is more than just a place where the ceremony occurs; it is a whole...

There’s only one way you can appreciate me in the bedroom—call my wife and get permission for me.

…there’s few on Earth as can cut a man deeper than his childless wife.

There are some who want to get married and others who don’t. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

Marriage is a core component of the patriarchal system. According to Gerda Lerner’s research on ancient societies, a woman could achieve at least some status, and with that, better treatment and privileges, through preserving her...

Has no one ever told you that it is the height of impropriety to kiss any gentleman, unless you have the intention of accompanying him immediately to the altar?

Marriage is the connecting of the two: Without passion it’s just friendship; without friendship it’s just lust.

Why must man not marry?” “He cannot marry. He cannot marry,” he said angrily. “If he is to lose everything, he should not place himself in a position to lose that. He should not place...

A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she has...

…I don’t believe you should be a virgin when you get married,’ Sera said. ‘You should experiment. Men do”Yes, but only if you’re in love with them,’ I said.

You wanted a wife but I wasstill a girl.

No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.

One way to be sure you are not making the wrong decision, is to lookvertically upwards

How do I feel today? I feel as unfit as an unfiddle,And it is the result of a certain turbulence in the mind and an uncertain burbulence in the middle.What was it, anyway, that angry...

Marriage is a fine institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.

The silence stretched out between us as I stared at him, the tears blurring my vision as I waited for him to save me from this torment. Surely he could find a way.

I am falling in love with falling out of love

Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself.