Make poverty, sickness, and death central issues in the contract," he says, "it's no wonder the divorce rate is fifty percent.

I didn't appear to need anyone: I could do it all myself. I could do everything. I was both halves: did that mean I was whole?

You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget.

Once she had said to him that what they had was grace. Even now, married properly, rank bestowed, it still was. And always would be

Sometimes they purposely asked people over just to give themselves the incentive to clean up in a frantic rush before they arrived.

Apa karena semua orang punya jalan hidup : Lahir, remaja, dewasa, nikah, punya anak, menua, punya cucu, mati, kita juga harus gitu?

Once a woman goes over 25, she prioritizes 'financial security' in a potential lover. Love and good looks are just a bonus.

Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots

I wear a wedding ring, though I’m neither married nor engaged. I do it to warn off predators like cougars. And grizzly bears.

The way to an ordinary marriage is the path of least resistance. If you want an extraordinary marriage, you will have to choose it.

We made love like two sand dollars in a vending machine. She said she wanted marriage and kids, and I said all I wanted was a soda.

They seemed so united that I loved them as one person." Lee wrote of his son and daughter-in-law on his daughter-in-law's death.

Does this dress make my ass look big?" I ask him."You look like a fat cow in high heels," he laughs.Yes, I am married to this idiot.

In all marriages there is the imbalance: one who loves more than the other. One who licks wounds in secret, the rust-taste of blood.

I have known him nearly all my life, and I am going to marry him, so that there won't ever be a time when I shan't know him.