Quotes About Couples

Those who are threatened by marriage equality are, many things suggest, as threatened by the idea of equality between heterosexual couples as same-sex couples. Liberation is a contagious project, speaking of birds coming home to roost.

Americans have swapped the awkward phrase "same-sex marriage" for the term "marriage equality." The phrase is ordinarily employed to mean that same-sex couples will have the rights different-sexed couples do. But it could also mean that marriage is between equals. That's not what traditional marriage was.

Those who are threatened by marriage equality are, many things suggest, as threatened by the idea of equality between heterosexual couples as same-sex couples. Liberation is a contagious project

Recently, a lot of Americans have swapped the awkward phrase "same-sex marriage" for the term "marriage equality." The phrase is ordinarily employed to mean that same-sex couples will have the rights different-sexed couples do. But it could also mean that marriage is between equals. That's not what traditional marriage was.

So now he better understood how couples clung to their own story—each, often, to a separate part of it—long after it had gone cold on them, even to the point where they were not sure they could bear one another. Bad love still contained the remnant, the memory, of good love—somewhere, deep down, where neither of them any longer wanted to dig.

It was possible for couples to not discover that they are in profound disagreement over the very fundamentals of life until ten or twenty years of marriage.

The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.

12% of people marry because they are completely in love. 88% of people marry just so they are then liable for only half of their rent.

And there were carved hearts in the trunks of trees with the initials of couples who felt there was no more romantic thing they could do to celebrate their love than scar the local plant life

So many love affairs doesn't survive, because the couple has been very loving to each other but with the time they stop respecting each other.

How are you feeling? What problems are you facing? How can I help you solve those problems? That's the kind of conversation that helps married couples stay in love with each other. Or it leads people into affairs when it's done outside of marriage and with someone of the opposite sex. It's intimate conversation.

the near dark streets where Friday night's business began to accomplish itself, strolling couples, arm in arm, girls bright as just pricked flowers, halfdrunk belligerent men herded homeward by fierce women with bitter persecuted faces...

Most couples love to tell each other their stories and assume their meeting had something exceptional about it; countless pairings formed under the most banal conditions are, all the same, spiced up with details that produce a minor thrill.

I don't know who St. Valentine was, but I hope he died alone, surrounded by couples.

Do married people live longer than single people or does it just SEEM longer?

Sex doesn't help you to get to know a guy. It clouds your judgment and often causes unmarried couples to think they have more in common than they really do. If they do marry, their lack of compatibility often comes to the surface later....One of the blessings of purity is that it brings such faults to the surface sooner rather than later.

Newlywed couples strolled the Mall—Washington now outranked Niagara as a sexual shrine

The punch was getting to them, their faces redder and small tiffs between couples

After less than a year together they now slept in separate rooms because Victor's snoring, and nothing else about him, kept her awake at night.

Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person.

The notion that marriage is an impediment to commitments to the larger community is a long-standing one - and one reason early Christians did not place the institution at the top of their moral hierarchy, complaining that married couples cared more about pleasing each other than doing the Lord's work.

There have been plenty of very bare hotels with couples humping next door. I don't stay in very grand hotels.

Plenty of couples snipe at each other in sometimes embarrassing ways in front of company.

My boyfriend and I have finally learned how to embrace confrontation as something that will only help us as a couple.