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But then again, didn't all marriages carry thousands of hurts? Didn't husbands and wives injure each other all the time, leaving wounds both big and small, with snapped words or forgotten anniversaries or emotional buttons deliberately pushed? But thousands of kindnesses existed in marriages, too. The important thing was that the kindnesses triumphed over the hurts. ↗

— Sarah Pekkanen

#marriage

There’s little back roads and little towns sometimes I never heard of them. I start to expect the gas station attendants to know me when I arrive. I get excited that I’ve been there before. I want them to welcome me. I’m disappointed when they don’t. Something that I don’t want to be true starts lookin’ like it’s al that’s true only I don’t know what it is. No. No. I need my marriage. I come here to tell you. I got to stay married. I’m lost without her. ↗

— David Rabe

#loneliness #phil #marriage

Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#marriage #love

Love is greater than marriage, love is the greater thing while marriage, though noble and honorable, is questionable in its origins. I question the creations of man, I do not question the masterpieces of God. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#marriage #love

This is a woman you've known less than twelve hours. It took you a year to pick out a couch, but you're seriously—" “Yes,” Roger said. “She's the one. ↗

— Jennifer Crusie

#marriage #the-one #love

God is great and God is good," Lisa says. "But where are the Apache attack helicopters when you need them? ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

My mind floats like ash. I blame myself most cruelly. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#infidelity #marriage #seperation #marriage

You're crazy, Dylan. Oh, my God, you proposed marriage with index cards? No one else in the world would do that. Yes. Yes, Yes! If you ask me a thousand times, then every single time I'll say yes. ↗

— Charles Sheehan-Miles

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A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she has no response, it should not take place. This is an act of prostitution and is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#sex #women #marriage

The true love is unconditional. Marriage is a conditional bond. ↗

— Toba Beta

#love #marriage #love