Quotes About Marriage

just how it had been painfully answered. By not being married, I was now free to focus on healing me. That was my gift in all of this. I was determined to accept it.

had been dragged under by a riptide of negative self-talk: I am not enough. I am rejected, no matter how hard I try and no matter what good I do. I am alone and not wanted. All fears that ending my marriage had stirred up and brought to the surface.

There were days when I struggled with the feeling that I had wasted my life, remaining way too long in a marriage that wasn't working, and worried that it was now too late, or that I was too old, to ever have the kind of deep, comforting love and companionship I so yearned for and honestly felt I'd never fully had.

I now know exactly why they started the tradition of being apart the night before your wedding. It's nothing about romance, or sex, or being chaste, or whatever. It's so you don't have a row and stomp up the aisle seething at your bridegroom, planning all the home truths you're going to tell him as soon as you get this wedding bit out of the way.

Men who want to get married propose. You don't need to read the signs. They propose and that's the sign.

You shouldn't go into a marriage feeling inferior in any way.

There are some things I don't understand about Jess and never will. No wedding dress. No flowers. No photo album. No champagne. The only thing she got out of her wedding was a husband. (I mean, obviously the husband is the main point when you get married. Absolutely. That goes without saying. But still, not even a new pair of shoes?)

I can do this, I tell myself firmly. I can be attracted to him. It's just a matter of self control and possibly also getting very drunk. So I lift my glass and take several huge gulps. I can feel the bubbles surging into my head, singing happily I'm going to be a millionaire's wife! I'm going to be a millionaire's wife! And when I look back at Tarquin, he already looks a bit more attractive. Alcohol is obviously going to be the key to our marital status.

No wife wants to hear that her husband is less than perfect.

Magnus," I say more gently. "Listen. There's no point doing this. Don't marry me just to prove you're not a quitter. Because you will quit, sooner or later. Whatever your intentions are. It'll happen." "Rubbish," he says fiercely. "You will. You don't love me enough for the long haul.

I thought marriage was for ever. I really did. I thought Luke and I would grow old and grey together. Or at least, old. (I'm not intending to go grey, ever...)

Becky, if I had to wait five years, then I would. Or eight -- or even ten. He pauses, and there's complete silence except for a tiny gust of wind, blowing confetti about the churchyard. But I hope that one day -- preferably rather sooner than that -- you'll do me the honor of marrying me?

Is that what he thinks? I mean, I know it's the truth, but it shouldn't be what he thinks. Husbands should think the best of their wives, as a matter of principle.

He said that he and Mum had often talked about the kind of man I would marry, and they'd always disagreed on everything except one thing - he'll have to be on his toes. Then he looked at Luke, who obligingly got up and turned a pirouette, and everyone roared with laughter.

All our institutions, including that of marriage and the family, are historically based on short and vulnerable lives….The twenty-first century has to adapt all of these institutions to deal with longer and longer lives." —Sarah Harper, professor of gerontology, University of Oxford

Husbands should not memorize conversations, word for word. It's against the whole spirit of marriage.

Laki-laki yang ingin menikah akan melamar. Kau tidak perlu membaca tanda-tandanya. Mereka melamar, dan itulah tanda-tandanya.

I know that things are still uncertain; I know that reality hasn't gone away. There'll be explanations and recriminations and messiness. But right now I'm entwined with a man I think I might love. And I haven't married the man I know I don't love. And from where I'm looking that's pretty good going, for now. At

As regards the DF 4000 Deluxe X-ray body scanner we were discussing, please be assured, I have never known a case of a husband "using it to track down shopping parcels hidden about his wife's person.

Frusture is my word for the exquisite fury that only your husband can give you. Not only are you furious, you feel like he's doing it all on purpose, in order to torment you.

And for another start, if marriage has taught me one thing, it's to not bring up tricky subjects when your husband is stressed out launching offices simultaneously in Amsterdam and Munich.

Frusture is my word for the exquisite fury that only your husband can give you. Not only are you furious, you feel like he's doing it all on purpose, in order

Whose tale more sad than thine, whose lot more dire? O Oedipus, discrowned head, Thy cradle was thy marriage bed.

Oed. Must I not fear my mother's marriage-bed?