#ria

As an artist in the 1960s, Norman Sunshine was able to maintain a moderately out lifestyle. But when the first exhibition of his paintings in New York brought on a profile in The New York Times in 1968, he was photographed in the apartment that he admitted sharing with Shayne. At both his advertising agency and Shayne’s television production company, the article was met with absolute silence. ↗

— Norman Sunshine

#double-life #gay-marriage #love-story #norman-sunshine #love

I like you more than any other woman I've ever met. I've never even thought about spending my life with one woman until now. I want to live with you, take care of you, grow old with you. I want to sleep with you in my arms every night for the rest of my life. I want to see your belly swell with my child - a son or daughter with mop of curly hair. I want you for my wife. ↗

— Dorothy Garlock

#marriage-proposal #love

God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others. ↗

— John Piper

#sex-and-the-supremacy-of-christ #love

With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased. The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his. ↗

— Jane Austen

#marriage #marriage

The deeper you go in ministry, the more the enemy wants to be an irritant in your marriage. ↗

— Kevin Thoman

#ministry #marriage

If marriages are said to be made in heaven then why search for grooms in hell. ↗

— Amit Abraham

#marriages #searching-and-finding #marriage

It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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One of the things you learn about being married is that being with someone day in and day out can make you so comfortable that you risk losing your tact. ↗

— Apol Lejano-Massebieau

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Did you really look at the word Engaged, use to be first you go Steady then buy a ring then the woman was so happy that you became 'Engaged'. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

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A well-worn marriage was like a shop-soiled currency note. Its only fault was that it had been in circulation for too long – it didn’t smell fresh, feel crisp to your fingers and fill you with a sense of possibilities as you held it in your hand, like a newly minted, fresh-from-the-press one did. (Lottery Ticket) ↗

— Manjul Bajaj

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