For Love or Money

Disraeli, the brilliant Prime Minister of England, fell in love and married a lady twelve years older than he by the name of Mary. They had a legendary ...

Love Requires More than Romance

A love which depends solely on romance, on the combustion of two attracting chemistries, tends to fizzle out. ... A long-term marriage has to move beyond ...

The Perfect Marriage

Charles Spurgeon describes the perfect marriage:

Their object in life is common. There are points where their affections so intimately united that none ...

Partners Must Become Compatible

Every person who comes into marriage is an amateur, and no couple who marries is ever compatible. It's a lifelong process of becoming compatible.

A Valentine's Typo

During the church service, my son enjoys searching for typographical errors in the church bulletin, since I am the church secretary. At the service on ...

Natural Reason Looks at Marriage

Note that when natural reason (whom the heathen have followed when they wanted to be very wise), looks at married life, she turns up her nose and says: ...

Marriage Not the End

Marriage is not an end--it is a beginning. It is not a destination, but rather a method of travel.

Change for the Better

I picked up the tax package sent by our CPA. For once, I'd surprise my husband Henry and get our tax information in early. As I scanned the lines, ...

Essentials of Happiness

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Passion for Fidelity

The instinct of fidelity is perhaps the deepest instinct in the great complex we call sex. Where there is real sex there is the underlying passion for ...