#marriage

Well married, a man is winged—ill-matched, he is shackled. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#matrimony #life

Edna felt depressed rather than soothed after leaving them. The little glimpse of domestic harmony which had been offered her, gave her no regret, no longing. It was not a condition of life which fitted her, and she could see in it but an apalling and hopeless ennui. She was moved by a kind of commiseration for Madame Ratignolle, - a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium. Edna vaguely wondered what she meant by "life's delirium." It had crossed her thought like some unsought, extraneous impression. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#marriage #life

But a good wife—a good unworldly woman—may really help a man, and keep him more independent. ↗

— George Eliot

#temptation #life

Not only is love blind, it’s a little hard of hearing. ↗

— Brian P. Cleary

#love #marriage #observational-comedy #humor

All my life, in nameless, indeterminate ways, I'd tried to complete my life with someone else--first my father, then Hugh, even Whit, and I didn't want that anymore. I wanted to belong to myself. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#self-love #life

You never have to suffer because of, or be denatured by, another person, even someone you love. ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#divorce #divorcing #love-pain #love-sadness #marriage

People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship. ↗

— Gary Chapman

#failure-relationship #marriage #marriage-life #marriage-preparation #relationships-advice

In a shelter meant for battered women, there were only two reasons a person would decide to leave. One, she had decided to launch out on her own and begin a new life. Or two, she had decided to go back to someone who had hurt her. ↗

— Deborah Bedford

#marriage #pain #women #family

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will. ↗

— Robert Frost

#marriage #food

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#marriage #reality #love