Quotes About Marriage

Because men and women in a relationship have many conflicting interests, evolutionary theory does not view love relationships as harmonious partnerships for childrearing; but a universal feature of human cultures is that men and women form relationships intended to last for years (marriage) that constrain their sexual behavior in some way and institutionalize their ties to children and to each other.

This principle, called "negativity bias,"13 shows up all over psychology. In marital interactions, it takes at least five good or constructive actions to make up for the damage done by one critical or

to be her daddy. However, no kids or marriage show up in his records." Moe Reed said, "He romanced Sylvester in order to get her to play along?" "That's the working hypothesis, Moses." He recounted Sylvester's role as executor, her frequent house calls, the role her grandfather had played in Leroy Hoke's criminal enterprise. "In general, she's privy to tons of insider information relating to Thalia.

it seems to me marriage is like a big boat. Put the time into maintaining it, and it's something to see. Get lax, and it goes to hell in a handbasket.

She had never married or had kids, but she did have nephews. She'd bought them tons of gifts over the years, before they hit adolescence and morphed into—her sister's words—" uber-assholes.

Not a word about the tiny bones. I wondered why a married woman would avoid the plural form.

Everywhere that I have studied happiness some very simple patterns hold: a stable marriage, good health, and enough (but not too much) income are good for happiness. Unemployment, divorce, and economic instability are terrible for happiness—everywhere that happiness is studied.

According to one estimate, the amount of money needed to "compensate," statistically speaking, for a lost marriage is on the order of an extra $100,000 a year.

if I did something like that, I'd have to tell them. I don't want to have to show up and say, 'Yeah, I've had a fight with my wife and slept at the Holiday Inn.

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

The toledot of the heavens and earth (Genesis 2:4–4:26) starts with the high point of the creation of man and woman, and the ordination of marriage. But not too long after that, the First Couple, Adam and Eve, sinned, and brought death into the world.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

I would have done the same thing I did. I would have put all my energy into loving someone that wasn't you. I would have tried in vain, every day, to not think about you, and what could have been. What should have been. I would have tried to convince myself that there's no such thing as true love, except for the love you yourself make work, even though I know better....The bottom line is I never had any business marrying anyone who wasn't you.

You get married to have an ally against your family, and now I'm heading into the trenches alone.

Never marry a beautiful woman. Worship them if you must, go to bed with them if you can—by all means, everyone should have carnal knowledge of physical perfection at least once in their life—but when it comes to marriage, it's a losing proposition. You will never stop feeling like a gatecrasher at your own party. Instead of feeling lucky, you will spend your life on edge, waiting for the other stiletto to fall and puncture your heart like a bullet.

Maybe yelling back is a kind of marital diplomacy

We knew marriage could be difficult in the same way that we knew there were starving children in Africa. It was a tragic fact but worlds away from our reality.

Over the course of a fifty-year marriage, one bad year isn't very significant. Your marriage might still be there to be saved. But you'll never know if you keep indulging your hate and anger like the world owes you reparations.

The self-help books and websites haven't come up with a proper title for spouses living in the purgatory that exists before the courts have officially ratified your personal tragedy.

I am hoping this is my year to have children. I understand that I am possibly more European in my views of marriage. I am not going to say I'm not going to get married, but it's not my priority.

When the time comes,' Lief said, determinedly drowning her out, 'I will follow Adin's example, and marry for love.' He glanced at her. 'if the woman I love will have me, of course.' 'She probably will,'said Jasmine. 'When the time comes.' She slipped her hand into his.

I am married to the most amazing, generous and beautiful human being and it has been hard on him because from the outside if you look at it it's just all about me.

I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all it's very tough on him. From the outside it looks like it's all about me - I have a glorious career and he doesn't.

In war, love is a luxury. It comes at a high price... This brand of marriage, I guess, takes steady nerves.