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Marriage Quotes
I hope you enjoy this beautiful collection of marriage quotes with good advice and secret to a happy marriage. Marriage Quotes Index
About Marriage
Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects.
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.
You never know anyone until you marry them.
Return to Index of Marriage Quotes Marriage is a promise. Not just between the couple but to the community at large, to generations past and to those yet to be born. Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.
The First Bond of Society is Marriage.
Getting married is a way to show family and friends that you have a successful personal life. It's like the ultimate merit badge. Return to Index of Marriage Quotes Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.
Marriage provides the solace of worked-on friendship and the joy of being known profoundly.
Marriage is a case of "Unite and Conquer" Marriage has some thorns, but celibacy has no roses.
Return to Index of Marriage Quotes BeautifulNew love is the brightest, and long love is the greatest, but revived love is the tenderest thing known on earth. Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner,
it feels limitless, not limited.
Return to Index of Marriage Quotes Being in a long marriage is a little bit like that nice cup of coffee every morning - I might have it every day, but I still enjoy it.
There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a
door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side
of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.
Return to Index of Marriage Quotes Benefits of Marital BlissBoth men and women live longer, happier, healthier and wealthier lives when they are married. Unmarried co-habitation doesn't cut it. Cohabitation does not bring the benefits - in physical health, wealth, and emotional wellbeing - that marriage does. And, married people have both more and better sex than do their unmarried counterparts.
When a guy is happily married, no matter what happens at work,
no matter what happens [during] the rest of the day, there's a shelter when you get home. Return to Index of Marriage Quotes Researchers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland asked a simple question of 10,000 married men with no history of chest pains (angina): "Does your wife show you her love?" Those men answering yes were found to experience significantly
less angina in the next five years than husbands responding no - despite such negative indicators as elevated cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes or electrocardiogram abnormalities.
A study of nearly 6,000 Americans with bladder cancer found that those who were married had better survival rates than single patients. Compared with their married peers, single patients were 26 percent more likely to die during the study period - even when researchers factored in patients' age, race and severity of their cancer.
Bible VersesFor this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
But Ruth replied, "Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God..."
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
Return to Index of Marriage Quotes Blended FamilyStepparents, remember this: Your partner will react to an act of kindness directed toward their child as if you had extended two acts of kindness directly towards them (your partner). The
same applies for an unkind act, but your partner is likely to react as if you had acted unkindly towards them (your partner) five times.
Return to Index of Marriage Quotes CommitmentMotto for the bride and groom: What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent, unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting.
Commitment has kind eyes. He wears sturdy shoes. Everything is vivid when he is around. It is wonderful to sit and have lunch in his gardens around harvest time. You can taste in the vegetables that the soil has been cared for.
Commitment is making a choice to give up other choices.
Return to Index of Marriage Quotes Marriage is the hardest thing you will ever do. The secret is removing divorce as an option. Anybody who gives themselves that option will get a divorce.
I think a man and a woman should choose each other for life, for the simple reason that a long life with all its accidents is barely enough time for a man and a woman to understand each other and. . . to understand - is to love."
As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me." It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
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CommunicationThe most important marriage skill is listening to your partner in a way that they can't possibly doubt that you love them.
When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
The goal is to have a conversation in a way so that you can have another conversation tomorrow. Return to Index of Marriage Quotes In a good relationship, people get angry, but in a very different way. The Marriage Masters see a problem a bit like a soccer ball. They kick it around. It's 'our' problem.
Some of the most important words in marriage are "maybe you are right" and "let's try it your way." As a good friend of mine (a bachelor until he was 38) said to me after his first year of marriage: "I finally learned that the sun will come up tomorrow if we try it her way."
Committing to staying calm is the first key to committing to staying married. We heard this at a wedding: 'If you are going to argue, argue naked.' Return to Index of Marriage Quotes
Consequences of Marital DiscordResearchers found men and women in unhappy marriages suffered from increased stress levels throughout the day at home and at work as well as higher blood pressure at midday at the office, which could raise the risk of heart attack or stroke.
Poor social relationships are as damaging to physical health as cigarette smoking. The mortality rates of individuals with poor social relationships are higher than those who smoke cigarettes for many years.
Marital distress is an important health hazard for adults and children. Marital distress leads to depression and reduces immune system functioning in adults. In addition, chronic marital conflict harms the emotional and physical well-being of children.
Research has shown a child who sees his mother mistreated is more damaged than if the child himself is abused.
Return to Index of Marriage Quotes DivorceDivorce to like an amputation. Sometimes it's necessary but it should be avoided if at all possible because it brings about a permanent disability.
The United States Administration for Children and Families (ACF) spends $46 billion per year operating 65 different social programs. If one goes down the list of these programs… the need for each is either created or exacerbated by the breakup of families and marriages.
Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
Return to Index of Marriage Quotes Divorce causes a decrease in wealth that is larger than just splitting a couple’s assets in half. By the same token, married people see an increase in wealth that is more than just adding the assets of two single people. On the other hand, divorce can devastate your wealth. Divorce drops a person's wealth by an average of 77%. Contrary to popular belief, the research shows that the wealth of divorced women wasn't significantly worse than that of divorced men, in terms of real money. If you really
want to increase your wealth, get married and stay married. To get divorced because love has died, is like selling your car
because it's run out of gas.
Divorce is a major health risk for American adults and children. In addition to well-established links between divorce and mental health problems, adults who experience divorce more than double their risk of earlier mortality. And children who experience a parental divorce have their life expectancy shortened by an
average of four years, according to a fifty-year longitudinal study. These effects are comparable to those of cigarette smoking.
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Foundation for a Long-Term MarriageThose marriages generally abound most with love and constancy that are preceded by a long courtship.
Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you.
The first year of marriage is like wet cement - the impressions made in it are much harder to change once it has set. Return to Index of Marriage Quotes
Good AdviceDon't be a buzz kill. When your spouse shares something exiting, match their enthusiasm.
You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty - finish high school, marry before having a child, and marry after the age of 20. Only 8 percent of the families who do this are poor; 79 percent of those who fail to do this are poor.
Get Married For a marriage to have any chance, every day at least six things should go unsaid.
The divorce rate would be lower if instead of marrying for better or worse people would marry for good.
Return to Index of Marriage Quotes I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person, but I do know that many people have a lot of wrong ideas about marriage and what it takes to make that marriage happy and successful. I'll be the first to admit that it's possible that you did marry the wrong person. However, if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. On the other hand, if you marry the right person, and treat that person wrong, you certainly will have ended up marrying the wrong person. I also know that it is far more important to be the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person. In short, whether you married the right or wrong person is primarily up to you.
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
Real giving is when we give to our spouses what's important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not.
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, the grounds for marriage.
Return to Index of Marriage Quotes Some pray to marry the man they love, Do not pray to marry the one that you love, but to love the one that you marry.
Choose your love, then love your choice.
If you want peace, work for justice. That's true for marriage, or for any other human endeavor.
Let the wife make her husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Spoil your spouse.....not your children.
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How to Strengthen Your MarriageOne of the nicest things you can say to your partner, "If I had it to do over again, I'd choose you. Again."
The Policy of Joint Agreement: Never do anything without an enthusiastic agreement between you and your spouse. This policy helps men take their wives' feelings into account whenever they make a decision - avoid thoughtless habits, learn to meet emotional needs with mutual enjoyment and resolve conflicts. This creates marital compatibility and emotional bonding. Whenever he follows it, he learns to think about his wife's reaction to everything he does. Some argue that just an agreement would be a big help, why insist on enthusiastic agreement? It's because couples need to avoid agreements that are coerced or self-sacrificing. Couples need to learn how to come to agreements that take both of their interests into account at once. I have encouraged couples to continue to negotiate until they arrive at an enthusiastic agreement because they're the ones that stand the test of time. Joint agreement means that both must be enthusiastic together, and no one risks losing their identity or subjecting themselves to slavery or control when they themselves must be enthusiastic about each decision. The goal is to become united in purpose and spirit, not to overpower or control each other. Think of it as creating a mutually enjoyable lifestyle.
Return to Index of Marriage Quotes Write a list of ways that you have benefited from being married to your spouse. Then write a list of your spouses positive patterns and qualities. Keep adding to the lists and reread them
frequently. Be presidents of each other's fan clubs.
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.
Return to Index of Marriage Quotes HumorousIf you didn't want to be improved, you shouldn't have gotten married.
Charlie Brown kicks a football while saying, "my grampa and gramma have been married for 50 years...." To which his playmate replies "They're lucky, aren't they?" Charlie says, "Grampa says it isn't luck...it's skill."
A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.
Adam and Eve had an ideal marriage. He didn't have to hear about all the men she could have married... and she didn't have to hear about how well his Mother cooked.
We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.
Return to Index of Marriage Quotes Two women sitting in a restaurant, one is saying to the other: "Sometimes I wonder if it would've been better having one big marriage instead of a lot of little ones."
Do You Know Your Spouse? Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy - Return to Index of Marriage Quotes Husbands"Remember, you married her, you didn't hire her!" - said to critical, controlling husband.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
My dad told me on the day of my wedding, 'Never go in a place that you wouldn't take your wife.' Return to Index of Marriage Quotes
Importance of a Sound MarriageIf the marriage ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.
They say it takes a village to raise a child. That may be the case, but the truth is that it takes a lot of solid, stable marriages to create a village.
Healthy marriages are the best way to protect children from abuse.
Importance of FamilyAll children have the right to live in a two-parent, married family. Talk about a
Head Start Program - it's the kids with married parents that get the real head start. When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.
Return to Index of Marriage Quotes InfidelityBad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.
I'm tempted to go to all the buildings downtown and put up a sign, "DANGER ZONE: Men and Women at Work." Today's workplace is the most common breeding ground for affairs. It's the proximity and collegiality - the intimacy of working together, not bad marriages, that is the slippery slope to infidelity.
Men's affairs in particular are often the cause of troubled marriages and not the effect. In my data, 56 percent of men who entered into affairs said they had ''happy'' or ''very happy'' marriages, compared with 30 percent of women. For men, the strongest predictor for having an affair is their attitudes and values about monogamy. For women, it's marital unhappiness.
Return to Index of Marriage Quotes What we really need is a time machine so that people entering into an affair could flash forward and see themselves, their kids, their lives at the other end of this "tunnel of love" – at the end of the lust. Stephen Covey was asked after a speech about how to forgive someone who has committed adultery. He said the question made him think of the old prayer, "Oh Lord, let me forgive those who sin differently than I do."
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InsightfulWhen a man marries a woman, they become one--the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
There is a connection between what you are putting into your marriage and what you are getting out of it.
Any fool can have a trophy wife.
It takes a real man to have a trophy marriage.
If the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it's because they take better care of it.
The challenge is to help couples turn "I Do" into "We Can."
Return to Index of Marriage Quotes Interviewer: "For so long you were the poster boy for American
bachelorhood. Now that you've settled into a marriage, do you find monogamy difficult?" Warren Beatty: "No. I would imagine that marriage without it is difficult."
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
When it comes to marriage, the more you focus on the bad stuff, the more you focus on the bad stuff. It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.
The success of marriage comes not in finding the "right" person, but in the ability of both partners to adjust to the real person they inevitably realize they married.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each
other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Return to Index of Marriage Quotes It's true what they say – all the good men are married. But it's marriage that makes them good.
Empathy means resonating with the “not self”. In empathy you know everything is connected, so whatever you do to something else or someone else is done to you.
Love doesn't commit suicide. We have to kill it. Though, it often simply dies of our neglect.
No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying.
Do NOT do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
Return to Index of Marriage Quotes So many people have the will to have a strong marriage but don't have the skill.
Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they
blossom when we love the ones we marry.
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and
another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a lot of overlap.
Marriage, families, all relationships are more a process of learning the dance rather than finding the right dancer.
The man who puts into the marriage only half of what he owns will get that out.
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Return to Index of Marriage Quotes What makes a relationship work is having things in common. What makes a relationship passionate are our differences. More marriages might survive if the partners realized that
sometimes the better comes after the worse. The three stages of love and marriage: You don't marry one person; you marry three: Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them. Return to Index of Marriage Quotes IntimacyThere is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.
Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed,
half the problems of bed are solved.
Tell guys if they make the bed in the morning, they might benefit in that same bed in the evening.
The way you make love is the way God will be with you.
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Keeping the RomanceWhy would a couple that lives and sleeps together every night
need dates and rituals? Precisely because they live and sleep
together.
The heart of marriage is memories. Return to Index of Marriage Quotes LaughterLaughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
In our house we don't take ourselves too seriously, and laughter is the best form of unity, I think, in a marriage. Sexiness wears thin after a while, and beauty fades. But to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
The more things we can laugh about, the more alive we become: The more things we can laugh about together, the more connected we become.
Return to Index of Marriage Quotes LoveLove seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Love and marriage, love and marriage People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.
When there is love in a marriage, there is harmony in the home; when there is harmony in the home, there is contentment in the community; when there is contentment in the community, there is prosperity in the nation; when there is prosperity in the nation, there is peace in the world.
The first duty of love is to listen.
Return to Index of Marriage Quotes Love is no assignment for cowards.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
One of the great illusions of our time is that love is self-sustaining. It is not. Love must be fed and nurtured, constantly renewed. That demands ingenuity and consideration, but first and foremost, it demands time.
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in
the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do?
Love is a four-letter word spelled T-I-M-E.
Love is seeking to act for the other person's highest good.
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Marital UnionTo get the full value of joy As much as I would miss my wife if she were to die, I would miss what we are together even more. Our "we-ness" our "us-ness."
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Coming together is the beginning. A problem shared is a problem halved. Return to Index of Marriage Quotes
Marriage is Hard WorkThe most difficult years of marriage are those following the wedding.
There is such pleasure in long-term marriage that I really would hate to be my age and not have had a long-term marriage. Remember, sustaining a pleasurable, long-term marriage takes effort, deliberateness and an intention to learn about
one another. In other words, marriage is for grown-ups.
The development of a really good marriage is not a natural process. It is an achievement.
Love is a feeling, Marriage is a contract, and a Relationship is work.
People are often enamored with my Super Bowl ring. But it's my wedding ring that I'm most proud of. And having a good marriage takes even more work than winning a Super Bowl.
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ProfoundWhat counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how
compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall
out of love with each other, it keeps you together until maybe
you fall in love again.
Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.
People think they have to find their soulmate to have a good marriage. You're not going to "find" your soulmate. Anyone you meet already has soulmates. Dozens of them. Their mother.
Their father. Their lifelong friends. You get married, and after 20 years of loving, bearing and raising children, meeting challenges - then you'll have "created" soulmate status.
Return to Index of Marriage Quotes And You Wonder *Why* It Didn't Last He married her because she was so "fragile and cute." He divorced her because she was so "weak and helpless." She married him because "he is a good provider." She divorced him because "all he thinks about is business." He married her because "she reminds me of my mother." He divorced her because "she's getting more like her mother every day." She married him because he was "happy and romantic." She divorced him because he was "shiftless and fun-loving." He married her because she was "steady and sensible." He divorced her because she was "boring and dull." She married him because he was "the life of the party."
She divorced him because "he's a party boy."
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Raising ChildrenDon't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they
are always watching you.
I was talking to a friend who said she wants her children to be able to look back and say, "I want a great marriage like my Mom and Dad had." That struck me. I think we have a good marriage but do we put each other down sometimes? Yup. Do I snap at him for silly reasons? Yup. Do we seem really happy to our kids? Not sure. I hope so.
Research has shown a child who sees his mother mistreated is more damaged than if the child himself is abused.
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring and
integrity, they think of you.
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. Return to Index of Marriage Quotes
Re-MarriageWe just say: the divorce didn't work out. Parents used to have lots of children – now children have lots of parents. Return to Index of Marriage Quotes RomanticGrow old along with me. The best is yet to be - the last of life for which the first was made.
How Do I Love Thee? My true love hath my heart, and I have his.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
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SappyIf you live to be a hundred, I want My wife, the star I steer by.
Being married is like having a color television set. You never want to go back to black and white.
No road is long with good company. Return to Index of Marriage Quotes Secret to a Happy MarriageA good marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal.
Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages.
When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible."
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always
with the same person.
Return to Index of Marriage Quotes Dear Abby: A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.
A soulmate marriage does not at all mean that you have found someone you match up with on all the cards – on all the issues, on everything. That would be the most deadly dull thing to even imagine. Instead, it means you've found someone and they don't ever want to blow out that little light inside you. And you feel the same way about them. If a married couple with children has fifteen minutes of uninterrupted, nonlogistical, non-problem-solving talk every day, I would put them in the top 5% of all married couples. It's an extraordinary achievement.
Return to Index of Marriage Quotes Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
A good marriage is a contest of generosity.
Sheila and I just celebrated our thirtieth wedding anniversary.
Somebody asked her, what was our secret? She answered, “On my wedding day, I decided to make a list of ten of Tim’s faults which, for the sake of our marriage, I would always overlook. I figured I could live with at least ten!” When she was asked which faults she had listed, Shelia replied, “I never did get around to listing them. Instead, every time he does something that makes me mad, I simply say to myself, ‘Lucky for him,
it’s one of the ten!’”
Return to Index of Marriage Quotes ACCEPT - the secret of a good marriage. Gold Medal Marriages: marriages that exhibit longevity, resilience, loyalty, support, service and durability in the face of challenges and trials.
We call upon you to let your "happily-married" light shine.
Happily marrieds are not "perfect marrieds," but they have learned some of what it takes to create happiness in marriage. We encourage you to find ways to let people know that you love being married! Let those who are not yet married know that the adventure of marriage is worth the effort - that the rewards
are worth the price!
Return to Index of Marriage Quotes Showing LoveWhat I realize as I get older is that Michelle is less concerned about me giving her flowers than she is that “me doing things that are hard for me — carving out time. That to her is proof, evidence that I’m thinking about her. She appreciates the flowers, but to her romance is that I’m actually paying attention to things that she cares about, and time is always an important factor.
I asked my husband one day how he felt he showed me he loved me - he told me that he did it by making sure I was safe. That meant fixing my car or truck, checking tires, changing oil, filling it with gas, etc. Also making sure that the house was safe as well and fixing things there.
My wife uses fabric softener. I never knew what that stuff was for. Then I noticed women coming up to me, sniffing, then saying under their breath, "Married!" and walking away. Fabric Softeners are how our wives mark their territory. We can take off the ring, but it's hard to get that April fresh scent out of your clothes.
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Signs of an Ailing MarriageThe Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt. Return to Index of Marriage Quotes What Does Love Mean?When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love.
Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.
Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.
Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.
Return to Index of Marriage Quotes Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday.
Love is when mommy gives daddy the best piece of chicken.
Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.
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WivesWives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
A happy wife equals a happy life.
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