Long-married couples balance their
Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another’s financial error or excess. Diana Trilling
Married Couples
We do seem to
We do seem to bicker and bicker. Sometimes I feel we’re like an old married couple, who think occasionally of murdering each other – but never of divorce. Denis MacShane
Thoughtfulness is like a
Thoughtfulness is like a glue that hold a married couple together. Be creative and consistent in finding thoughtful ways to show your spouse that you love them and they are always on your mind. Dave Willis
Most married couples, even
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other’s nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. Dave Barry
My wife and I
My wife and I just started listening to the late Beethoven Quartets together, an activity I recommend for all married couples, but that doesn’t really mean that I’m finished reading. Clive James
Evidently there are plenty
Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They write pieces they do not much enjoy writing, for papers they totally despise, and the sad process ends by ruining their style and disintegrating their personality, two developments which in a … Read more
Whenever I go out
Whenever I go out with other married couples, I like to bring along a single crackhead. Just to spice things up. Chris Rock
Nothing to me is
Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes for her. Charles Lamb
The best advice I’ve
The best advice I’ve ever been given is being handed a Bible. That’s the blueprint for marriage that we go by, and that’s what our marriage is grounded in. We also have other married couples who are examples in our lives. My parents have been married over 40 years, and both sets of grandparents for … Read more
When we sat down
When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I realized how very little I had in common with them – the career dads, the responsible and diligent moms – and I was soon filled with dread and loneliness. I … Read more