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“The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.”

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Author:Carolyn Heilbrun

“The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are potent factors in immunizing her from common sense in dealing with men at work.”

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Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“most of us carry into marriage not only our childlike illusions, but we bring to it as well the demand that it has to be wonderful, because it's supposed to be.”

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Author:Eda LeShan

“Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.”

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Author:Thomas Moore

“Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Soul mates' are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness to find a mate with whom life can be most compatible and beautiful, yet it is certain that almost any good man and any good woman can have happiness and a successful marriage if both are willing to pay the price.”

Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

“People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images. The exciting adventure of marriage is finding out who the partner really is.”

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Book:Explorations in marital and family therapy: selected papers of James L. Framo

Source: Explorations in marital and family therapy: selected papers of James L. Framo