Quotes About Marriage

MRS. PEACHUM Well, Polly; as far as one woman can forgive another, I forgive thee.—Your father is too fond of you, hussy. POLLY Then all my sorrows are at an end. MRS. PEACHUM A mighty likely speech in troth, for a wench who is just married!

and hold her. Another woman would have instinctively known what Bonnie needed. But as a man, I didn't know that touching, holding, and listening were so important to her. By recognizing these differences I began to learn a new way of relating to my wife. I would have never believed we could resolve conflict so easily.

It took me years to understand that my wife actually wanted me to worry for her when she was upset. Without this awareness of our different needs, I would minimize the importance of her concerns. This only made her more upset.

Tra le coppie che sono state capaci di mantenere vivo l'amore fino al matrimonio, solo il cinquanta per cento rimane unito.

Global studies reveal that as women become more educated and financially independent, their risk of staying single or getting a divorce increases, their happiness decreases, and their stress levels rise.

I borrowed the term from a particular American Indian tradition. When a bride married her husband, her mother told her that after marriage, at the end of the day, a man would withdraw into his cave. At those times, don't go in his cave or you will be burned by his dragon. She was referring of course to a man's anger.

I hear women say this. Instead women would often complain: He doesn't listen; he is inattentive; he is no longer romantic; he doesn't complement me; he is less affectionate; or he is self-centered. When considering divorce, a woman would say, "I give and give, but I don't get back. I have nothing left to give." This is a far cry from a man's basic frustration that his wife is just not happy and as a result he feels like giving up.

They say a woman marries a man with the belief she can change him, and she can't. A man marries a woman with the belief that she won't change, and she does.

What kind of name is Siler-Spence? I mean, what's wrong with these women who use hyphens? What if her name was Skowinski and she married a guy named Levondowski? Would her little liberated soul insist she go through life as F.Gwendolin Skowinski- Levondowski?

And you've never been married, right?" "Correct." "Well, I've tried it twice and I'm not sure I can recommend it.

Pete had insisted on a stipulation that Liza be allowed to live in the home for the rest of her life, provided she did not remarry, and provided that she was one day

Hello, Jenny," he said. She was very pretty and young and Theo was in love. He would marry Jenny tomorrow if he could, but his age and her husband complicated things. Plus, she was pregnant, and this bothered Theo, though he mentioned it to no one.

Dexter's wife, Jackie, was alone in the parsonage on the other side of the church

Turning to Darnley, he said, "Sir, take the queen your sovereign and wife to you.

which he placed on the fourth finger of his right hand.

The queen was a dependent of the king, not his partner. She was a consort

The lords realized that her position as the future queen of France

it began to sink in that whoever married her was likely to become king and could make or break their careers.

he had no desire whatever to marry Mary and live in Scotland.

Philip II had come to resent the fact that his wife was eleven years older than he was.

It was the classic dilemma for women rulers. Should they marry and have children

Sex was obligatory for a queen consort of France.

she was distraught to realize soon after their marriage that he did not really love her.

The idea that Mary should marry Charles IX was rejected out of hand by Catherine.