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It's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works hard to keep things rolli...more

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Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but do...more

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A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

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When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just ...more

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It was a strange thing, to still be in love with your wife and to not know if you liked her. What would happen when this was all over? Could you forgi...more

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You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up o...more

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When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail ...more

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Sara," I ask finally, "what do you want from me?""I want to look at you and remember what it used to be like," she says thickly. "I want to go back, B...more

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But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without t...more

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Even if we have grown so far apart that we don't recognize each other when we pass, we have this life, this block of time, and what do you think about...more

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When I see him, his frame filling the doorway, I do not feel passion, excitement. I can't remember if I ever have. He makes me feel comfortable, like ...more