Quotes About Commitment

If you are once sure what you do want, you find that everything else goes down before it like grass under a roller—(all other interests, your own and other people's. I had

I was a bit vague on the details when relaying the story to him." "I might just come to like you, Emily. But you should never withhold details—no matter how small—from him. A marriage requires absolute honesty." "I agree, of course. It's just that—" "There can be no just thats," she said. "Full disclosure on every subject or you'll mire yourselves in a web of deceit. What seems insignificant

he would not love her, not with the sort of passion to be found in the myths of old. Marriage was about duty and loyalty. Love was something else altogether.

I would not love you so well if you were less headstrong.

How could I deny him? I would want him to acquiesce should I have a similar sort of request; I considered it part of loving someone. You owed your partner the right to be unreasonable sometimes, when it mattered to him. I lifted his hand to my lips and kissed his palm. "Very well," I said. "I shall do as you wish.

Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing. —HENRY MILLER

You and I have never shared a bank account or a child or a bed. But you are my wife.

Is it love, or is it convenience?... She explained that connivence, habit, comfort, obligation- these are all things that wear the same clothing as love sometimes.

Marriage is between two people. There is no studio audience.

A marriage is more than your heart, it's your life. And we are not sharing ours.

It was a wonderful feeling to be grown and yet young. To be married but not settled. To be tied down yet free.

Everything I do is a love letter addressed to you.

There are too many loose ends in the world in need of knots. You can't attend to all of them, but you have to try.

As for me, I'm modern and traditional at the same time. I, too, believe in intimacy—who doesn't? But I also believe in commitment. Marriage is, as she says, "a peculiar institution." My parents' divorce made it clear what kinds of raw deals are brokered at the altar. But right now, in America, marriage is the closest thing to what I want.

I don't want to jeopardize what I have with her over a dream that may not even fit me anymore. She and I are enough to be a family. If you need a kid to keep you together, then how together are you?

A marriage is more than your heart, it's your life.

It takes being together to another level when you go to bed for a purpose larger than your own feelings.

You also have to work with the love you are given, with all of the complications clanging behind it like tin cans tied to a bridal sedan.

Marriage is complicated.

None of this proposing via billboard or at halftime at the Rose Bowl. Marriage is between two people. There is no studio audience.

She explained that convenience, habit, comfort, obligation—these are all things that wear the same clothing as love sometimes.

Love is always hard and always worth it.

Every relationship requires that you go through some shit.

I moved closer to her and wound my fingers in her thick hair. "We've always been together," she told me. "Not like this. But always." I nodded. "I want to be the only one you cook for." We laughed, a real laugh, a shared laugh. This is when our life changed. We came to each other with joy on our lips. What came next may not have been legally binding; there was no clergyman or witness. But it was ours.