#marriage

Don't go to sleep, Ginger-Sun." "Draz-" "I know," he muttered, "'Behave, Baz. She's been through a lot. And don't make a baby for at least three months.'" "They told you not to touch me for three months?" "Let's just say it was strongly suggested. ↗

— Catherine Asaro

#marriage #sex #marriage

Women are wonderfully practical,' murmured Lord Henry, 'much more practical than we are. In situations of that kind we often forget to say anything about marriage, and they always remind us. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#women #marriage

Has it ever occurred to you that married couples endure watching their spouses grow old and feeble and senile all the time? That it's part of marriage? A hard part, to be sure, but not so hard that one just gives up on the institution altogether. ↗

— Sabrina Jeffries

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أسوأ من زواج بلا حب أن يكون حب من طرف واحد ↗

— أنيس منصور

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Next morning while imbibing his morning tea beneath his pink silken quilt Bernard decided he must marry Ethel with no more delay. ↗

— Daisy Ashford

#marriage #marriage

How could I describe our relationship even to myself without either disparaging it or insulting it with the tawdry decoration of sentimentality? ↗

— Olaf Stapledon

#marriage #love

Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea. ↗

— Dennis E. Adonis

#contentment #decisions #greed #happiness #love

It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOOING your woman” should be a continuous process. It should NEVER end after you get your “yes” from her. If you did a lot to get her, you should do more to keep her. ↗

— Olaotan Fawehinmi

#how-to-make-a-woman-love-you #love #marriage #olaotan-fawehinmi #relationship

We tell ourselves that intimacy (and marriage) takes two people who are willing to work at it-but, unfortunately, we rarely have the slightest inkling of our "job" assignments in this project. ↗

— David Schnarch

#love

Any mature, spiritually sensitive view of marriage must be built on the foundation of mature love rather than romanticism. But this immediately casts us into a countercultural pursuit. ↗

— Gary L. Thomas

#marriage #romance #love