“If somebody says to me, 'Oh, you're gonna get married and you'll never be attracted to anybody else again,' I'm like, right, sure. It's just not practical to me on an emotional level. Just because I'm married, I'm not dead.” IfsLevelsEmotionalMarriedPracticals Author:Sean Young
“You know what I find amazing is within Christianity it is not uncommon to find [married] people who don't have sexual intimacy, don't have emotional intimacy, don't have spiritual intimacy, don't pray together, don't do their life together, don't put their schedules together, don't put their budgets together, but they don't get divorced. So they can pat themselves on the back and say, 'We're good Christians.' They're divorced in everything but the paperwork.” PeopleKnowsChristianTogetherSpiritualChristianityEmotionalPrayingMarriedIntimacyBudgetsSchedulesDivorcedUncommonGood ChristianLife TogetherPaperwork Author:Mark Driscoll
“A married guy is responsible for everything, no matter what. Women, thanks to their having been oppressed all these years, are blameless, free as birds, and all the dirt they do is the result of premenstrual syndrome or postmenstrual stress or menopause or emotional disempowerment by their fathers or low expectations by their teachers or latent unspoken sexual harassment in the workplace, or some other airy excuse. The guy alone is responsible for every day of marriage that is less than marvelous and meaningful.” YearsMatterGuyFatherResultsTeacherEmotionalMarriedLowsBirdExpectationsStressResponsibleNo Matter WhatExcuseMeaningfulThanksDirtOppressedMarvelousWorkplaceUnspokenHarassmentSyndromesLatentAiryMenopauseBlamelessLow ExpectationsDisempowerment Book:The Book of Guys: Stories Source: The Book of Guys: Stories
“When men and women across the country reported how happy they felt, researchers found that jugglers were happier than others. By and large, the more roles, the greater the happiness. Parents were happier than nonparents, and workers were happier than nonworkers. Married people were much happier than unmarried people. Married people were generally at the top of the emotional totem pole.” PeopleMenCountryHappinessFoundFeltParentWorkRolesGreaterEmotionalMarriedMen And WomenWorkersResearchersUnmarriedTotemsJugglers Author:Faye J Crosby
“I don't really know why I'm such an emotional person, that's just how I was born. It's a problem. It's not easy to be married to me.” KnowsPersonsProblemEasyBornEmotionalMarriedBeing MarriedEmotional Person Author:David Gray
“I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.” PeopleThinkingWayWantEndsFeelingsPowerfulEmotionalMarriedNegativeUncertainty Author:Alain de Botton