- Difficulty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage Quotes
Honest, sometimes funny, thoughts on staying married.
These marriage quotes skip the greeting-card tone in favor of something more candid — one compares divorcing without love to marrying only for it, another turns the wedding vow itself into a punchline. For a lighter spin on the topic, try Jokes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Especially around Valentine's Day, it's easy to find advice about sustaining a successful marriage, with suggestions for 'date nights' and romantic dinners for two. But as we spend more and more of our lives outside marriage, it's equally important to cultivate the skills of successful singlehood.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage can provide a bounty of emotional, practical, and financial support. But finding the right mate is no substitute for having friends and other interests.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage is generally based on more equality and deeper friendship than in the past, but even so, it is hard for it to compensate for the way that work has devoured time once spent cultivating friendships.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage is no longer the only place where people make major life transitions and decisions, enter into commitments, or incur obligations.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many alternatives to traditional marriage have emerged. People feel free to shop around, experimenting with several living arrangements in succession. And when people do marry, they have different expectations and goals.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Heterosexuals were the upstarts who turned marriage into a voluntary love relationship rather than a mandatory economic and political institution.
- Dawn
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage has been in a constant state of evolution since the dawn of the Stone Age. In the process, it has become more flexible - but also more optional.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why do people - gay or straight - need the state's permission to marry? For most of Western history, they didn't, because marriage was a private contract between two families. The parents' agreement to the match, not the approval of church or state, was what confirmed its validity.
- Protect
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- Nov 07, 2020
Using the existence of a marriage license to determine when the state should protect interpersonal relationships is increasingly impractical.
- Embark
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- Nov 07, 2020
Deciding together to have a child and sharing in child-rearing do not immunize a marriage. Indeed, collaborative couples can face other problems. They often embark on such an intense style of parenting that they end up paying less attention to each other.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unilateral divorce has decreased the bargaining power of the person who wants the marriage to last and has not engaged in behavior that meets the legal definition of fault. On the other hand, it has increased the bargaining power of the person who is willing to leave.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
To my mind, it is better to have regrets about the good aspects of your former marriage because you were able to work past some of your accumulated resentments than to have no regrets because you had to ratchet up the hostility to get out in the first place.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020