Sarah Mlynowski Quotes

The man you married is yours to have and to hold for the rest of ever, even if he starts chewing tobacco or decides to pierce his hairy nipple and buy a Corvette, because you very plainly said - or at least implied - you were in it for better or for worse.

When people think, rightly or wrongly, that marriage is forever, they are stimulated to seek and find a resolution, a modus vivendi, whenever they quarrel.

Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.

People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.

Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.

My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.

When I decide I want to have children with somebody, I think it would be nice to be married to that person.

You will always be my always.

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?

The way I grew up, when you're married, you have to stay married together.

Your allegiance is with your spouse; you cannot break that by showing allegiance to your ex-spouse.

I think a big part of marriage is not going anywhere on those days you feel you really want to. It's like in the Barrier Islands. If you want to stay together, don't leave. I think just culturally - in the media, in movies, in books - we're trained to divorce when that first blush of sexual longing starts to fade. That's just where marriage starts.

You know, I might get married at 50 or 60, when it actually means something to say 'for the rest of my life.'

While I believe in marriage as an institution, I am also petrified of it.

I don't regret either of my marriages - not for a minute.

I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought that was quite important.

When you're old-fashioned like I am, you know marriage is forever. Those vows are a promise.

It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married.

I love my wife and I know she loves me. We're best friends. We're just lucky to have found each other. It takes a lot of work but I just feel very blessed that I found the right person. It's a very fortunate situation and not everyone has that.

When you genuinely feel like that was the right relationship, you're supposed to give it all you can. That's what marriage is about.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

I just wanted to be married and to be happy ever after.

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring and it's not about the wedding. It's a grave thing, getting married. And it's easy to get swept up in the wrong things.

The Bible says that you marry for life, okay. It's a lifetime decision.

I got married because it was the right time and the right thing to do.