#ship

The secret to a long and loving marriage is to choose, everyday, to be married. ↗

— Jacqueline Patricks

#long-term-relationships #marriage #vows #love

Traveling in a third-world country is the closest thing there is to being married and raising kids. You have glorious hikes and perfect days on the beach. You go on adventures you would never try, or enjoy, alone. But you also can't get away from each other. Everything is unfamiliar. Money is tight or you get robbed. Someone gets sick or sunburned. You get bored. It is harder than you expected, but you are glad you didn't just sit home. ↗

— Meg Jay

#relationships #travel #marriage

The decision to get married will impact one's life more deeply than almost any decision in life. Yet people continue to rush into marriage with little or no preparation for making a marriage successful. In fact, many couples give far more attention to making plans for the wedding than making plans for marriage. The wedding festivities last only a few hours, while the marriage, we hope, will last for a lifetime ↗

— Gary Chapman

#marriage-humor #marriage-mistakes #marriages #successful-marriage #life

When it comes to men, deal with them as they are, not how you’d like them to be. ↗

— Greg Behrendt

#men #relationship #love

I think the tingles are important. They are real, and I am in favor of their survival. But they are not the basis for a satisfactory marriage. I am not suggesting that on should marry without the tingles. Those warm, excited feelings, the chill bumps, that sense of acceptance, the excitement of the touch that make up the tingles serve as the cherry on top of the sundae. But you cannot have a sundae with only the cherry. ↗

— Gary Chapman

#failure-relationship #falling-in-love #long-term-appreciation #long-term-relationships #sense-of-falling-in-love

I review what I know once again, confronting the monolith now alien and almost unconnected to me: my marriage. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

For me, it´s sloth," I say. "Hedonistic sloth and escapism. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

Marriage is more about snore strips and flannel nightgowns than candlelight dinners. ↗

— Barbara Bartlein

#marriage #relationships #love

Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not. ↗

— Paul Reiser

#relationships #marriage

[On what young husbands should say to their wives:] I have taken you in my arms, and I love you, and I prefer you to my life itself. For the present life is nothing, and my most ardent dream is to spend it with you in such a way that we may be assured of not being separated in the life reserved for us... I place your love above all things, and nothing would be more bitter or painful to me than to be of a different mind than you. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#god #husband #inspirational #life #love