Having a baby will put your marriage through the ringer, and if you're lucky, you'll come out the other end stronger for it.
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
A troubled marriage can be as hazardous to physical health as cigarette smoking.
I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.
I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.
Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
I'm totally against straight marriage - even though I'm married. I don't think heterosexual marriage is any of the government's business.
When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.
I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.
Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult. And yet, examining the first couple's relationship - their negotiations of public and private life, of conflicts and compromises - offers hints about Barack Obama the president, not just Barack Obama the husband.
In Hungary, if homosexuals would like to live together, they can do so under the civil code. But what we call marriage is exclusively for one man and one woman. We are a Christian country. That's a historical fact.
On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
I have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of marriage, it was defined as between one man and one woman. It was anti-polygamy, in effect saying no man can hoard his women.
The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?
How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?
The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that your marriage is over, although that does happen. Most relationships hover on a precipice for years before one party or the other finally decides it is time to jump, and coming to the decision isn't easy.
I believe marriage is a human right, not a state right.
Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.
If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page contract covering every eventuality. Whereas with marriage you go into it with no contract, with laws that date back hundreds of years, and I don't think that's right.
