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It may be that same-sex couples will save the institution of marriage.

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What if we just acknowledged that we have a bad relationship, and we stuck it out, anyway? What if we admitted that we make each other nuts, we fight ...more

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I was suffering the easily foreseeable consequences. Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story. It all begins when the object of...more

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we must take care of our families wherever we find them.

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Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.

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Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of...more

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My friend Kate once went to a concert of Mongolian throat singers who were traveling through New York City on a rare world tour. Although she couldn't...more

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The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people... would ...more

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I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

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Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules. And then we go ...more

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The emotional place where a marriage begins is not nearly as important as the emotional place where a marriage finds itself toward the end, after many...more

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In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives on...more

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Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that...more

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Because what my gradmother did with her fine coat (the loveliest thing she would ever own) is what all women of that generation (and before) did for t...more

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The Buddha referred to married people as “householders.” He even gave clear instructions as to how one should be a good householder: Be nice to your s...more