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وأخيراً انتصر الحب.. تزوجا،وكان علي أحد شهود الزواج..انتهت الرسالة برأي علي الشخصي:تساءل: أليس الزواج هو الانسجام الكامل بين الشاب والفتاة، الرغبة اللامحدودة بالانصهار معاً، واليقين التام بأن السعادة هي في الحياةالمشتركة.. الى آخر العمر ؟.. ↗

— ناديا شومان

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He should in humility have asked her why it was that he was naturally a cuckold, why two women of different temperaments and characters had been inspired to have lovers at his expense. He should be telling her, with the warmth of her body warming his, that his second wife had confessed to greater sexual pleasure when she remembered that she was deceiving him. ↗

— William Trevor

#cheating #marriage #men #relationships #women

The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#choice #clichés #double-standards #empowerment #feminism

For women, marriages foreclosed often resulted in an accumulation of booty; for men, these failed projects of implausible optimism were more likely to manifest themselves in material lack. It was hard to resist the metaphorical impression that women got to keep the past itself, whereas men were simply robbed of it. ↗

— Lionel Shriver

#marriage #marriage

The great success of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. ↗

— Sir Harold Nicholson

#marriage #success #inspirational

Whenever your foundation is laid in God, there will be nothing that can shake it, no matter how strong the storm is. ↗

— Angelo M. Swinson

#inspirational-quotes #marriage-advice #relationships #self-help #inspirational

Men like Carew, he knows, tend to blame him, Cromwell, for Anne’s rise in the world; he facilitated it, he broke the old marriage and let in the new. He does not expect them to soften to him, to include him in their companionship; he only wants them not to spit in his dinner. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

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She would also be creating her own bridal bouquet. She wanted to feel the fragility and softness of each petal. And to make the single flowers stronger than they’d been separately. Just as she was stronger now, together with people who loved and accepted her. ↗

— Liz Grace Davis

#flowers #inspirational #marriage #inspirational

Why didn't your grandfather leave me? God knows I wasn't esy to live with. You';ll have to ask him. I imagine it's for the same reason. Stay and survive. Find joy. ↗

— Amy Stolls

#imagination

I know that many, if not most, women would have a problem with my acceptance of what happened with Lara. The reality is I shall always be grateful to Lara for helping my husband when I could not do so. I couldn’t have chosen a better or kinder surrogate. ↗

— Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker

#infidelity #marriage #unconditonal-love #forgiveness