Trivial Squabbles

Any difference [in a marriage] is relatively minor when compared to the fear that love no longer exists.

Love Is Strong

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Dormant Marriages

Every marriage seems to have its periods of "death" as well as "resurrection." C.S. Lewis felt this way and attributed so much divorce ...

Love: Better with Age

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

The First Family Squabbles

Think of all the squabbles Adam and Eve must have had in the course of their nine hundred years. Eve would say, "You ate the apple," and Adam ...

Advice from Ogden Nash

To keep your marriage brimming,

With love in the loving cup,

Whenever you're wrong admit it,

Whenever you're right, shut up.

Someone in Your Corner

I'll be sashaying along through life, feeling pretty cocky, when something will jolt me back into a sense of my neediness--my need for my husband. ...

Benefits of Marriage

In this age, when we run from reliance on others and celebrate our own (ultimately futile) autonomy, it's nice to sometimes say, "I'm sad. ...

Marriage and Needs

I never got married to get my needs met. My husband does not exist to meet my needs. I exist to meet his needs. And incidentally, while I'm doing ...

What Men Think About

Women look at their men, who are thinking silently, and assume they're ruminating about an important issue (the one we've been thinking out loud ...