The Marriage Resource Center

Here are some great quotes, poems, and information about marriage.

90% of the American population will choose to marry during their lifetime.
Married people rate themselves significantly happier than unmarried people.
Married men earn more money than single men.
Men have greater job stability when married.
Married couples accumulate net worth 93% higher than similar single or divorced individuals.
Married people are healthier than singles.
All couples (yes, even long-married, happy couples) have conflict.
All couples fight about the same five issues: finances, children, sex, in-laws, role expectations.
Couples who learn to handle conflicts well - feel greater satisfaction in their marriage.
Marriage increases the likelihood that fathers will have good relationships with their children.
Children who grow up in an intact marriage are healthier physically and emotionally
Cohabitation increases the chance that a couple will ultimately divorce.
The divorce rate for remarriages is 66%.
The divorce rate for remarriages resulting from an affair is 70%.
Infidelity doesn't guarantee an end to marriage. A couple can survive infidelity and develop a stronger marriage.
A recent poll of high school students indicates that 95% or more of them hope to marry someday.
A recent poll of high school students indicates that less than 20% of them have a healthy marriage role model to help them form their own marriages.

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Quotes

"A marriage so free, so spontaneous, that it would allow of wide excursions of the pair from each other, in common or even in separate objects of work and interest, and yet would hold them all the time in the bond of absolute sympathy, would by its very freedom be all the more poignantly attractive, and by its very scope and breadth all the richer and more vital -- would be in a sense indestructible."

Edward Carpenter, Love's Coming of Age

As long as I do not view the idea of marriage like a microwave dinner but more like a 20 course homemade Italian family dinner, I know for a fact that I will have a relationship that will truly satisfy.

Allow me to use a word picture:

instant oatmeal cooking time vs. steel cut oats cooking time

instant gratification vs. long term investment

fast food vs. home cooked meal

What do I want OUT of the relationship vs. What do I GIVE TO the relationship.

You get what you put in.

Chew on that for a minute.

Deborah Thomas

Hang in there - Hang on to the cross.

Paul and Lynn Melcher

"Never marry someone whom you wouldn't want to be divorced from. "

Anonymous

"Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are. "

Paulo Coelho, in The Alchemist

"The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident. "

Sir Hugh Walpole

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. "

Lao Tzu

'All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. '

Leo Tolstoy

"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. "

Plato

"What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Love does not fail for you when you are rejected or betrayed or apparently not loved. Love fails for you when you reject, betray, and do not love. "

Adi Da

"Marriage - It's not about religion, it's not about morality, it's about commitment...

David Cameron

"Keep God at the center of your relationships."

Tim and Cindy Terhune