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“No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.”

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Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“The real relatedness between two people is experienced in the small tasks they do together: the quiet conversation when the day's upheavels are at rest, the soft word of understanding, the daily companionship, the encouragement offered in a difficult moment, the small gift when least expected, the spontaneous gesture of love.”

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Book:We, understanding the psychology of romantic love

Source: We, understanding the psychology of romantic love

“Ours was the Togetherness Generation. We equated togetherness with salvation, and expected so much from it that it was bound to let us down. Companionship, security, lifelong physical and spiritual and emotional warmth - all were to be had for the twist of a ring and the breathing of a vow. And to be had no other way.”

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Author:Shana Alexander

“A perfect marriage is as rare as a perfect love. Could it be otherwise, when both men and women are so imperfect? Could aught else be expected? Yet all do expect it.”

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Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.”

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Author:Loretta Lynn

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”

“Marriage - as its veterans know well - is the continuous process of getting used to things you hadn't expected.”

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Author:Thomas Mullen

“I've always said that I expected to grow up and get married like any nice southern girl, but the fact is you don't get married in the abstract. You find someone that you'd like to be married to.”

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Author:Condoleezza Rice

“Marriage has become a battlefield where two persons are fighting for supremacy. Of course, the man has his own way: rough and more primitive. The woman has her own way: feminine, softer, a little more civilized, more subdued. But the situation is the same. Now psychologists are talking about marriage as an intimate enmity. And that's what it has proved to be. Two enemies are living together pretending to be in love, expecting the other to give love; and the same is being expected by the other. Nobody is ready to give - nobody has it. How can you give love if you don't have it?”

“A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.”

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Book:Marriage and Morals

Source: Marriage and Morals