Quotes About Expectations

For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality, the romcoms, like horoscopes, swiftly lost their allure.

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results: but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.

On both 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' it seems like proposing marriage is equivalent to saying, 'Let's date.' Everyone knows those aren't the same things.

To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can be brought for an example that it may be done and not repented afterwards.

Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.

Marriage is a big word for all guys," Shane said. "You know that. It's kind of an allergy. We get itchy and sweaty just trying to spell it, much less do it.

There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.

Our early lessons in love and our developmental history shape the expectations we bring into marriage.

As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.

The wonder is not that some married people are less happy than they hoped to be, but that any married people, out of the honeymoon, or even in it, are ever happy at all.

I grew up very conservatively and traditionally. I wanted to save myself for marriage.

Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.

For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn't. I don't think it really is for most people anyway. Most people are not very happy.

To be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage.

to be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies; but with us gentlemen it's quite another thing!

Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

Marriage wrecks any decent relationship.

If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.

I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.

Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.