Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.
All marriages are happy, it's living together afterward that's tough.
Marriage is not something that's easy, but nothing in life is easy.
About my marriage life, it has been pretty painful, pretty sad. I can't say there was no unpleasantness at all. I can't say it was smooth and happy or anything. There were lot of painful experiences we both went through.
Here's what I have to say about being married: someday you will look at him, hating him with every fibre of your being, wishing that he would die the most violent death possible. It will pass.
I don't think it's easy to be married to anyone.
Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].
Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.
I was too ashamed and afraid to confide in friends, and wanted to convince others and myself that my marriage was a success. I lost myself in my writing. Finding ways for my characters to overcome their problems and make their relationships work helped plaster over the wound caused by my inability to make things right at home.
Papa loved Mama, Mama loved men, Mama's in the graveyard, Papa's in the pen.
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
I wrote this book [ Desperate Marriages] because of my own marriage. My wife and I struggled greatly in the early years of marriage. In spite of the fact that we were Christians before we got married, we prayed about getting married, we believed it was God's will for us to get married, and we still had great struggles.
I've been married a few times. I'm not good at it.
I think infidelity is difficult, monogamy is difficult, and marriage is difficult.
I can tell you right away that no marriage is easy.
I would say, 'Go ask any couple that's been married for 30, 40, 50 years... It hasn't always been roses.'
The curse of marriage That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites!
'Revolutionary Road' is a fascinating study of the human condition of a fragmenting marriage and the torment that these two people put themselves through in their efforts to try and find happiness and try and stay together, actually.
I've been married to Kris for 21 years, and there have always been rocky times. And it's nothing special.
Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside you say, Why are they still married?
Some struggling marriages can be salvaged with hard work and counseling; others should be dismantled and stripped for parts.
I can understand; you are really in a mess and there is no way out. I have heard that there are three rings of love: the engagement ring, the wedding ring and the suffer-ring.
I now have a greater compassion than I have ever had before to know what it is to have the pain of a broken marriage. And I'm not saying I have an answer or solution for everyone.
I was battling depression, went through a really hard time in my marriage, and I used to cry myself to sleep. I went through years and years of pain and suffering, and finally got help. I feel so much better now, feel like a new person, so now I can be happy about it.
And I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.
