…there are no sweeter words in the English language (or any other) than husband and wife.

Being an unveiled wife is about confronting and crushing your fears; believing in truth more than in doubt, worry, or lies, and finding your security in God alone

Your partner may have injuries that you can’t repair. Your partner may be trapped in a dark room without windows. Your life narrative might bring him more relief than an opiate. Some people make better...

He was through with this conversation. As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like “How sane are we?” and “Do our lives have meaning?” The need for avoidance was acute and apparent to both...

I can’t save you unless you save me, too.

place” to submit to him. I respect Dan because he is a good person, and because he has made me a better person too.

Whilst lovers: to control her man, a woman uses (the man’s access to) her vagina. When ex-lovers: she uses (the man’s access to) their kids.

Women who do not play hard to get are hard to get.

I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.

Will you marry me?”, I let my soul go… to go meet hers, through her eyes.

Take me now, God!” I shout to the inky sky. “I´m ready.””You´re not ready. You´re not even divorced yet,” Bunny says. “You cannot die married to that man.

For me, it´s sloth,” I say. “Hedonistic sloth and escapism.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

It [economics] is the study of how people, companies, and societies allocate scarce resources. Which happens to be the same puzzle you and your spouse are perpetually trying to solve: how to spend your limited...

And when he got home he started on Mumma. He hated her then, because in her fatness and untidiness and drabness she reminded him of what he himself was when he was sober.

We don’t really want to get what we think that we want.I am married to a wife and relationship with her are cold and I have a mistress. And all the time I dream oh...

Take one cup of love, two cups of loyalty, three cups of forgiveness, four quarts of faith and one barrel of laughter. Take love and loyalty and mix them thoroughly with faith; blend with tenderness,...

Patience gives your spouse permission to be human. It understands that everyone fails. When a mistake is made, it chooses to give them more time that they deserve to correct it. It gives you the...

In my relationship, she is my woman and I am her man. This designation is not one of ownership, but of passion. It is a loving and passionate expression that reflects the truth that out...

It’s part of the marriage vows. Didn’t you read the fine print? To have and to harass.

Be a wife of whom he can make no complaint, Margaret. That is the best advice I can give to you. You will be his wife; that is to be his servant, his possession. He...

Maude regards the ones who don’t make it as her own personal failures. “I guess I didn’t put enough emphasis on ‘until death do you part,'” she says sourly, whenever she hears about the latest...

You don’t walk away to prove your worth. You walk away because you allowed someone else to dictate your value and you found yourself believing it.

This principle – that your spouse should be capable of becoming your best friend – is a game changer when you address the question of compatibility in a prospective spouse. If you think of marriage...

He should in humility have asked her why it was that he was naturally a cuckold, why two women of different temperaments and characters had been inspired to have lovers at his expense. He should...

Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.

Sex swims in marriage, while sex sinks in sin of being single.

When a man takes a mistress, he doesn’t turn around and divorce his wife.

If we just had some time to ourselves, we could talk to each other the way we used to. Maybe about nothing in particular at first, but even that would be a start.

I’m not sure how we got to this place, where a girl’s only value is in what kind of marriage she has, how capable she is of keeping a man happy.

For us the question is, has the marriage to do with well-being or with salvation? Is it a soteriological institution or a welfare institution?Is marriage, this opus contra natura a path to individuation or a...

This is a terribly dangerous journey” said Bjorn, “and few would have the courage to make it except you and me”. His wife said, “if you let Kari down, you had better realise that you...

A true mother is known for her compassion, love and passion; she is everly dedicated to her calling.

We talked about all the decades to come and how they would never be enough.

You cannot sodomize a Sacrament and expect God to say, ‘Well done.

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

As Miriam released my hand I felt that she and Midwife Bell had returned to a more primitive world, where men never intruded and even their role in conception was unknown. Here the chain of...

You, Jane, I must have you for my own–entirely my own.

Other married people have lived together and hated each other. Why shouldn’t we? We may forget even to hate.

What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life–to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to...

How could a man ever trust in a womans judgment when he knows she chose him for a husband?

Life’s too short to take yourself seriously, and too long to take a wife jokingly.

The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land. What is to be thought of a nation boasting...

True love is more than physical, emotional and romantical. It’s an acceptance of all that has been, that is, will be and will not be.

While getting a haircut, I thought about my failed marriage. Instead of feeling bad, I thought I’d grow a beard, move to the mountains, and start over.

In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which only God alone can give, namely, perfect happiness. One of the reasons why...

It was my grandmother who first told me that a woman marries a man in the belief that he’ll change but he doesn’t — and a man marries a woman in the belief that she...

With the act of marriage the situation frequently changes fundamentally. The marriage contract gives each partner the exclusive possession of the other’s bo dy, feelings, and care. Nobody has to be won over any more,...

A marriage filled with unconditional love experiences the depth of grace and mercy.

the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.