Factual thoughts on Marriage

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy

Love may be blind but marriage is a real eye-opener!



Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.



Chains do not hold a marriage together.
It is the threads, hundreds of tiny threads,
which sew people together through the years.

Marriage is the sole cause of divorce.

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Those are brilliant, AB, many thanks for a cheering smile first thing in the morning!!

Take care.

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2nd time around for me and I never thought I'd say it but, "Yes,it is possible to get your fingers burned twice!!!!"

On a more positive note, as I've got older I have got more tolerant and calm. That doesn't make it OK for someone to treat me like summat you'd scrape of your boots tho

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We had 25 years of marriage and despite the odd tiff we were happy. But as I sorted through all her `stuff` it dawned on me that there was so much more to her hopes and ideas than I had fully appreciated

I felt so guilty and broke down in tears.

Make every day with your partner a `special` day for tomorrow they might be gone

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OG, you are so right. We do tend to take things for granted until it is to late.


I have always said, Tell those you love how you feel everyday, you may not get another chance.

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That must have been so hard for you OG. For you to be able to say you had 25 happy years together is wonderful. Take care........

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I think marriage is about:

Respecting each other

Give and take

Communicating with each other and talking things through

Being 100% faithful to each other

Being there for each other

Just basically enjoying each other's company

Hubby and I have been married nearly 11 years and we are very lucky and have a very happy marriage.

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As one who's never married, find these comments interesting. Marriage must be like a job, you need to keep working on it to make it successful. OG, you must be missing your Jenny so much.. (((hugs)))

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You are right Alicat but you forgot the most important one which has served us well for 50yrs.

Trust.

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I agree with that and in January we will have been married for 30 years and my Wife Anita is still my best friend,

I had been married before for 10 years but that didn't work out,

It always seems strange how your Parents always seem to know something?

My Mum never really liked my first Wife and warned me about marring her and it worked out she was right, but she loved Anita straight away and they got on like a house on fire,

Sadly our wedding wasn't the easiest of times as my Mum died a few days before we were due to get married and the funeral was planned for a few days after,

At first we thought about postponing the wedding but friends and relations persuaded us to go ahead as they said that was what Mum would have wanted,

I just wish she had been around to see the Grandchildren and possibly the Great Grandchildren!!