To have beautiful servant girls is a threat to good marriages.
They say marriages work better if you don't know the person too well. Maybe we should stop writing each other posthaste.
Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.
What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, ...
I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don't really prepare for how much work marriage really is.
I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn't believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again.
I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all; it's very tough on him. From the outside it looks like it's all about me - I have a glorious career and he doesn't.
View Conflict as an Adventure not a threat.
If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.
Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
I love the idea of marriage. I definitely want marriage and little Kellans running around.
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.
Our black president can't say that he's for gay marriage. That is upsetting to me.
I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.
And now here was Arabella, making him feel worse. Maybe that was what she always did; maybe she always made him feel worse, and he'd never really noticed before. Maybe what seemed like the ordinary rough-and-tumble of marriage, combined with hard wor...
The notion that women shouldn't care about personal success -- or the work that gets them there -- is disengenuous; it is impossible for women not to have jobs anymore, so it doesn't make sense to expect them to structure their lives around getting m...
Your ultimate goal for marriage is that both of you—as husband and wife—commit to keep growing spiritually.
