Quotes About Partnership

One's lover is one's partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the lover is a liar then all your joint observations are unreliable. You will have to start all over again.

I am marrying the finest man I have ever known." "It will cost you dear," he warns. "It would be worse to lose him.

According to Scripture, the number-one purpose of marriage—more than even the unique, time-honored partnership it creates between a man and woman, more than even the conceiving and raising of children, more than any Prince Charming fairy tale in any little girl's head—is how it represents the mystery of the gospel in active, living form.

You know, Shane said twenty minutes later, I'd feel a whole lot better about the two of us if you didn't think I was the go-to guy for breaking and entering.

Amelie said, "I won't be your servant in Morganville. Nor should you be mine. Equals." She offered her hand to him, and he looked down at it, clearly taken aback. But he took it. "Now defend what is ours, my partner." He grinned … grinned! … and whirled to meet Myrnin in midleap as Myrnin attacked.

It's part of the marriage vows. Didn't you read the fine print? To have and to harass.

I'd feel a whole lot better about the two of us if you didn't think I was the go-to guy for breaking and entering.

You know,' Shane said twenty minutes later, 'I'd feel a whole lot better about the two of us if you didn't think i was the go-to guy for breaking and entering.' She felt a flash of guilt about the breaking-and-entering part -but she had called him- just before her heart did a funny little painful flip and she heard him say again in her head THE TWO OF US.

I'll be your hands.

Next time we commit crime, we'll make sure to include him.

But Sam doesn't need to be my therapy, or my life preserver, or my rescuer. I have to be all those things for myself if a marriage between us is ever going to work.

They would work together in pursuit of whatever it was their lot to discover. He didn't like her. But neither did he pity her. At least there was that.

She can put her life in Mitch's strong hands and fall at once into a dreamless sleep. In a sense, that is what marriage is about-a good marriage-a total trusting with your heart, your mind, your life.

You need somebody to work for besides who pays you, somebody special to build something with, to share a future with.

Helen Mainway, Charlie's wife

Love means more to me than being sexually compatible. It means being an important part of your life as you'll be in mine. It means encouraging you to be everything you've ever wanted to be, sharing in your triumphs and comforting you in your failures. It means giving you the courage to try again. That's what love is all about.

A successful marriage isn't finding the right person, it's being the right person.

I promise to give you the very best of myself, to be faithful to you, to be your friend and your partner," Nash whispered next, his voice gaining strength. Sincerity rang through his words. "I offer you my heart and my love," Savannah repeated, her own heart ready to burst with unrestrained joy. "You are my friend," Nash returned, "my lover, my wife.

Husbands and wives

A good marriage is good because one or both of them have learned to overlook the other's faults, to love the other as they are and to not attempt to change them or bring them to repentance.

When God gave Eve to Adam, he was giving him a helper, not a conscience. Adam already had a conscience before his wife was created.

You are created to be your husband's helper, not his conscience, not his vocation director, and certainly not his critic.

I don't ask for guarantees. I'll tell you what I want. I want to laugh with you. Sit and look at you. Wake up with nothing to think about but how warm and smooth you feel against me. Make a life together. All of this has been worth it if we can have that.

Sergeant Jack Riley and his wife. They were closer to