#fidelity

Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key! ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#marriage #sex #death

I vow I am, and always will be, constant and faithful in my love for you, Anais. Nothing you or anyone else does shall alter these feelings. I am forever loving, forever waiting, forever yearning...forever yours. ↗

— Charlotte Featherstone

#forever #love #obsession #yearning #faith

Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#infatuation #love #unrequited-love #life

I will ask no more of life than this: that I might love you through all my days, and that you may find both peace and joy in the constancy of my heart. ↗

— Robert Sexton

#love #life

Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. ↗

— Jeffrey McDaniel

#fidelity #love #obsession #love

It does help to actually realize that however stunning the person who is, you know, fluttering eyelashes at you, she doesn't do anything to match up to your wife. ↗

— Colin Firth

#fidelity #love #wife #love

Irrationally, I think, Will You Marry Me? Four words. I Want a Divorce. Four words. I would like time to count the letters as well, but there is not time. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #infidelity #marriage #seperation #marriage

God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return. Where you ought to be ahead of your wife in virtue, you collapse under the onset of lechery. ... Complaints are always being made about men's lechery, yet wives do not dare to find fault with their husbands for it. Male lechery is so brazen and so habitual that it is now sanctioned [= permitted], to the extent that men tell their wives that lechery and adultery are legitimate for men but not for women. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#clichés #double-standards #fidelity #gender #hypocrisy

The abandonment came, and now this shabby bacchanal. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

Marriage to the groom does not means that his heart belongs to the bride. ↗

— Dennis E. Adonis

#cheating #heart-broken #infidelity #lost-love #marriage