tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28087213140714134932024-02-02T02:14:34.999-08:00Hindu marriages in IndiaAn overview of Indian Hindu traditional marriages and related issues.Hindu Marriages In Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13357869299482718795noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808721314071413493.post-73465232649480859072020-11-10T22:18:00.002-08:002020-11-10T23:15:15.367-08:00Sadhguru supports Inter-cast marriages<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KVGTplYjyi0" width="480"></iframe><div><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Sadhguru is against Inter-caste Marriage – Find out Why!</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Sadhguru shares an intimate story of his own
marriage and how he handled the caste issues surrounding the situation.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual
master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his
life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally
relevant to our times.
(From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVGTplYjyi0&feature=youtu.be')</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Jaggi Vasudev was born on 03 September 1957. He is
known publicly as Sadhguru. He is an Indian yogi and author.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Sadhguru earned a bachelor's degree in English from
the University of Mysore and has been teaching yoga in southern India since
1982. In 1992, he established Isha Foundation near Coimbatore, which runs an ashram,
hosts a yoga centre, and has been involved in various activities in
spirituality, education, and the environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">He wrote several books, including Inner
Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy (2016). As a public speaker he has spoken at
the United Nation's Millennium World Peace Summit, the British parliament's
House of Lords, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the
International Institute for Management Development. He has also spoken at the
annual World Economic Forum in 2007, 2017 and 2020.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">He was awarded Padma Vibhushan, India's second
highest civilian award in 2017 for his social services.</span></p></div>Hindu Marriages In Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13357869299482718795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808721314071413493.post-79938905137639347832018-06-24T14:25:00.000-07:002018-06-24T14:25:01.089-07:00Karthi Wedding Videos<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/n_GoXce7H54" width="459"></iframe><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Karthik
Sivakumar (born 25 May 1977), better known by his stage name Karthi, is an
Indian film actor who works primarily in the Tamil film industry. The younger
brother of actor Suriya, Karthi holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical
Engineering from India and a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering which
he earned in the United States. He however always wanted to become a film
director, and hence returned to India and joined Mani Ratnam as an assistant
director. He was offered acting roles and made his acting debut in
Paruthiveeran in 2007 as the title character, a careless village ruffian,
winning critical acclaim and several accolades including the Film fare Award
for Best Actor and a Tamil Nadu State Film Award. His next role was that of a
coolie in Aayirathil Oruvan (2010), an adventure fantasy film directed by
Selvaraghavan. He achieved consecutive commercial successes with his subsequent
releases – Paiyaa (2010), Naan Mahaan Alla (2010) and Siruthai (2011). After
appearing in a series of box office flops, he starred in successful films such
as Biriyani (2013), Madras (2014) Oopiri (2016), Kaatru Veliyidai (2017) and
Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru (2017), which established him in Tamil cinema.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Apart
from his film career, Karthi has also been involved in social welfare
activities, encouraging fans to do likewise through the "Makkal Nala
Mandram", a social welfare club that he inaugurated. In 2011, he became a
cause ambassador to promote awareness of lysosomal storage disease. As of 2015,
he is the treasurer of the Nadigar Sangam.</span></div>
Hindu Marriages In Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13357869299482718795noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808721314071413493.post-13925362943482787142018-04-17T03:32:00.005-07:002020-11-10T22:39:05.104-08:00Astrology will not work in marriage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZBvT1x-I0d8" width="320" youtube-src-id="ZBvT1x-I0d8"></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Sadhguru says not to follow horoscope. He advises you to control all. He says you to decide not the planets. He says to take life into your hands.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBvT1x-I0d8</span></div>Hindu Marriages In Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13357869299482718795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808721314071413493.post-66042966484930260332016-01-19T01:21:00.001-08:002016-01-19T01:21:33.218-08:00Actress Priyanka Marriage Video<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XI6LlnDZQGE" width="459"></iframe>Hindu Marriages In Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13357869299482718795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808721314071413493.post-86184302731973012122016-01-19T01:20:00.001-08:002016-01-19T01:20:57.892-08:00Malayalam Actress Samvrutha Sunil Marriage - Full Video<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/umEcdM2J02U" width="459"></iframe>Hindu Marriages In Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13357869299482718795noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808721314071413493.post-91560760005737375282016-01-19T01:19:00.001-08:002016-01-19T01:19:05.443-08:00kerala hindu wedding highlights visual magic kochi<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xg6FVN7GhMs" width="480"></iframe>Hindu Marriages In Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13357869299482718795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808721314071413493.post-10231351817074137932016-01-19T01:17:00.001-08:002016-01-19T01:17:54.632-08:00AJITH SHALINI MARRIAGE ALBUM<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pgifzCJvKYQ" width="459"></iframe>Hindu Marriages In Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13357869299482718795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808721314071413493.post-22343824656814539122016-01-19T01:16:00.001-08:002016-01-19T01:16:37.856-08:00Sneha Weds Prasanna Marriage Video<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vAZtl1PfT94" width="480"></iframe>Hindu Marriages In Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13357869299482718795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808721314071413493.post-25189741444673509322016-01-19T01:14:00.001-08:002016-01-19T01:14:41.935-08:00Rajinikanth daughter Soundarya marriage video<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_L-eBvs8L30" width="459"></iframe>Hindu Marriages In Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13357869299482718795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808721314071413493.post-70904000493926934432016-01-19T01:13:00.001-08:002016-01-19T01:13:40.118-08:00Hero Karthi Marriage & Reception Video<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3hjBQl3Q40E" width="459"></iframe>Hindu Marriages In Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13357869299482718795noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808721314071413493.post-44777119609384481332016-01-19T01:12:00.001-08:002016-01-19T01:12:39.102-08:00Love Beyond Borders:{Prashanth+Jennifer} The Tamil Iyengar Wedding<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rnmOIf88-08" width="480"></iframe>Hindu Marriages In Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13357869299482718795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808721314071413493.post-70963593959383956052016-01-19T01:10:00.001-08:002016-01-19T01:10:42.332-08:00Rupan+Priya Tamil Hindu wedding<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yMDWZmbf6qg" width="480"></iframe>Hindu Marriages In Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13357869299482718795noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808721314071413493.post-88635383291924155592015-09-15T05:08:00.001-07:002015-09-15T05:08:07.183-07:00Wear A Saree In 2 Minutes - Quick Saree Draping Tutorial | India Video<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jorqok0ydig" width="480"></iframe>Hindu Marriages In Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13357869299482718795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808721314071413493.post-70541160369842327472015-09-15T05:02:00.001-07:002015-09-15T05:02:14.210-07:00KERALA WEDDING BRIDAL INTRODUCTION<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/k0O_9IV_3Xg" width="480"></iframe>Hindu Marriages In Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13357869299482718795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808721314071413493.post-78759391826004469732015-09-15T04:58:00.001-07:002015-09-15T04:58:15.735-07:00BEST Indian Hindu Cinematic Wedding Video of Suhan<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yFIaVQef5xs" width="480"></iframe>Hindu Marriages In Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13357869299482718795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808721314071413493.post-43624633809366442202015-09-15T03:06:00.001-07:002015-09-15T03:06:36.742-07:00Hindu Wedding<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vvbY3JRISFI" width="459"></iframe>Hindu Marriages In Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13357869299482718795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808721314071413493.post-81272208682249773562013-05-22T20:09:00.000-07:002013-05-22T20:09:05.644-07:00Wedding Procession<br />
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<span style="color: purple;">Only the central core of a marriage
procession is depicted here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #003366;">The bridegroom appears like a
king, leading the bride.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">How comfortable is the bride!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy;">She trails behind the groom
relaxed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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elegantly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hindu Marriages In Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13357869299482718795noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808721314071413493.post-13359876064118598512012-07-03T07:08:00.001-07:002012-07-03T07:10:28.333-07:00Wedding Invitation<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: x-large;"><strong><u>A Typical Marriage Invitation</u></strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">A gathering of our good friends,</span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">To celebrate our dreams,</span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">The magic of our wedding,</span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">Is closer than it seems.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">It shall be such a lovely day,</span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">We hope that you'll attend,</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">For it would be a special treat,</span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">To share with you, our friend.</span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">So please say that you'll join us,</span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">And that you'll come along,</span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">To see us wed so happily,</span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">That's what we're counting on!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #993300; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Free marriage scheme at <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Madurai</placename> <placename w:st="on">Meenakshi</placename> <placetype w:st="on">Temple</placetype></place></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"></span> <b> __</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 36px;"><b>GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Burwell Bassett, May 23, 1785</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">GEORGE BERNARD SHAW,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Maxims for Revolutionists</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriage is for woman the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">BERTRAND RUSSELL,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Marriage and Morals</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Getting married is like permanently grafting your hand to the cookie jar. No matter how sweet those cookies may taste, you can't help but wonder what would have happened if you'd chosen some other dessert--brownies, for instance ... or frozen yogurt ... or maybe chocolate strudel.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">JEROME P. CRABB,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Marriage Quotes and Quibbles</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and Church-begotten weed, marriage?</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">EMMA GOLDMAN,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Anarchism and Other Essays</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">To make a happy fire-side clime</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">To weans and wife,</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">That's the true pathos and sublime</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Of human life.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">ROBERT BURNS,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>To Dr. Blacklock</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Scarlet Letter</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">When a match has equal partners, then I fear not.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">AESCHYLUS,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Prometheus Bound</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Those marriages generally abound most with love and constancy that are preceded by a long courtship.</span></div><div align="right" style="text-align: right;"><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">JOSEPH ADDISON,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Spectator,</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Dec. 29, 1711</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">FRANK SINATRA,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Joker Is Wild</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">JANE AUSTEN,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Pride and Prejudice</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><i><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriage,</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">AMBROSE BIERCE,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Devil's Dictionary</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">GEORGE BERNARD SHAW,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Man and Superman</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">I never did, nor do I believe I ever shall, give advice to a woman who is setting out on a matrimonial voyage; first, because I never could advise one to marry without her own consent; and, secondly, I know it is to no purpose to advise her to refrain when she has obtained it. A woman very rarely asks an opinion or requires advice on such an occasion, till her resolution is formed; and then it is with the hope and expectation of obtaining a sanction, not that she means to be governed by your disapprobation, that she applies.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Lund</st1:city> <st1:state w:st="on">Washington</st1:state></st1:place>, Sep. 20, 1783</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">The present relationship existing between husband and wife, where one claims a command over the actions of the other, is nothing more than a remnant of the old leaven of slavery. It is necessarily destructive of refined love; for how can a man continue to regard as his type of the ideal a being whom he has, be denying an equality of privilege with himself, degraded to something below himself?</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">HERBERT SPENCER,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>An Autobiography</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">When a man marries a woman, they become one--the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">CROFT M. PENTZ,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Complete Book of Zingers</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marry'd in haste, we oft repent at leisure.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Poor Richard's Almanac</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">NORA ROBERTS,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Blue Smoke</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">GENESIS: 2:24</span></i><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">In courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight--that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">GEORGE ELIOT,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Middlemarch</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">RICHARD STEELE,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Spectator</i>, Sep. 1712</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">EDNA FERBER,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Show Boat</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">GARRISON KEILLOR, "The Old Scout,"<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Writer's Almanac,</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Oct. 4, 2005</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Men and women are natural enemies, like cat and dog--only more so. They are forced to live together for a time, or this wonderful race couldn't go on.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">NEITH BOYCE,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Enemies</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Unfortunately, a marriage license doesn't come with a job description or a set of instructions. There is definitely "some assembly required." In fact, putting together a modern-day marriage can be likened to assembling an airplane in flight.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">PATRICIA LOVE,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Truth About Love</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriage is meant to be a very sacred union between two people who have no intention of ever becoming emotionally or physically tied to another person for the rest of eternity. Most people mean their marriage vows when they take them, but oftentimes--these days more often than not, according to statistics--the initial commitment begins to wane and ultimately dissipates altogether. We live in a time when most people who get married before they turn thirty are merely doing a practice run.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">ZANE,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Dear G. Spot</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriage is not a word, it's a sentence--a life sentence.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">DAVID MINKOFF,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Oy!</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">It's a funny thing, but when a guy asks for your hand in marriage, he wants to hear the actual word<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>yes</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>escape from your lips. For him, that's the moment when he can celebrate. The longer you sit there speechless, the quicker he'll go into a panic. So say yes, aloud, and then you can start to hyperventilate with joy.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">JANIS SPINDEL,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>How to Date Men</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">G. K. CHESTERTON,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>What's Wrong with the World</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriage is a pretty amazing thing when you think about it. For two people to live together for so long under the same roof is a big accomplishment. Fifty-year anniversaries are becoming extinct, yet again proving that long marriages deserve awards and praise. Sometimes I see old people in restaurants sitting together eating their meals and I watch them. Sometimes it makes me sad. They don't even talk. Is it because they have nothing else to say, or can they simply read each other's mind by now?</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">JENNY MCCARTHY,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Life Laughs</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Some people put up and shut up and give their life into a miserable future in a marriage. This is not healthy for all who are connected with the marriage be it the couple, children and the external family. The ultimate problem lays in the couple who stick it out for all those years for the sake of the kids, money, time invested in each other, social, religious or family commitments, status or whatever their reason may be to hold that marriage together ignoring their own feelings for the external feelings and commitments. Then comes a time that we get all the freedom and the money we want to live comfortable but your heart is not comfortable because the dreams, goals and senses are lost and there is no vision for tomorrow.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">JEANETTE DE JONK,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Unconventional & Spiritual Marriage</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: "Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?"</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">RITA RUDNER,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>stand-up routine</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Happy marriage is the greatest wealth a man can possess, and one that a peasant can have as easily as a king.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">DOUGLAS <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">CARLTON</st1:place></st1:city> ABRAMS,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Lost Diary of Don Juan</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">I've been married eleven times. It would have been twelve, but one of my ex-wives tracked down all the others.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">FERN MICHAELS,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Marriage Game</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriage is a three-ring circus--engagement ring, wedding ring and suffering.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">DAVID MINKOFF,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Oy!</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">HONORÉ DE BALZAC, attributed,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>And I Quote</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">That little ditty about love coming first, then marriage, then the baby carriage--it's history. Over the past few decades more and more single people have been having children, and more and more married couples have not been.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">BELLA DEPAULO,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Singled Out</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">It is a mistake to think that marriage is unique to the human species. While, of course, some of the specific accoutrements of human marriage--such as the wedding ceremony--is unique to humans, the institution of marriage itself--the predictable and regulated patterns of mating between a male and a female--is shared by many other species, particularly birds.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">ALAN S. MILLER,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Romance is a great "salt" to sprinkle on the hard work of sharing a life with another human being, but the main ingredient of a happy marriage can never be romance.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">MARK GUNGOR,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriage can give one the deepest, happiest moments of life. And that's one of the reasons God created it. It was part of God's "Happiness Plan."</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">DAVID MICHAEL THOMAS,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Christian Marriage</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">I fall in love easily. I love the marriage ceremony. I love the honeymoon phase. I just don't want to be married. I'm not marriage material, but I am a very good honeymooner.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">FERN MICHAELS,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Marriage Game</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">"Happy marriage" is a contradiction in terms.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">DOUGLAS <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">CARLTON</st1:place></st1:city> ABRAMS,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Lost Diary of Don Juan</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">They stand at the altar before the minister and emotionally utter the words, "I do." It is a pivotal moment--the end of the wedding, but the start of the marriage. This is either the inauguration of a covenant or partnership that either expresses divine love that transcends all or (as is increasingly the case) the fractious nature of a communion unplanned, unevenly yoked, and selfishly formed.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">SAM OHENE-APRAKU, foreward,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>A Purposeful Marriage</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">FAY WELDON,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Spa</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Possibilities for the success of a marriage are endless. But you have to be willing to search for them.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">JASON R. REDMOND,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Are You Talking?</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Keep the eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterwards.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Wise Words and Quotes</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">In a way, marriage is a cosmic joke; we [men and women] are so different from each other.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">MARK GUNGOR,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">When most people enter marriage, they have only had an "up close and personal" view of a small number of marriages, perhaps only one (i.e., their parents' marriage). Although you likely have known many married people throughout your lifetime, your vision of most marriages is limited to the images that the couples project to the world. You can never really know what another person's marriage is like behind closed doors. Therefore, most people enter into marriage with gaps in their understanding of what marriage entails.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">CHRISTINE E. MURRAY,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Just Engaged</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriage is like the army--many complain, but you'd be surprised how many reenlist.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">VERNON</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;"> K. MCLELLAN,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Wise Words and Quotes</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">DAVID MINKOFF,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Oy!</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Not everyone believes that marriage transforms miserable and immature single people into paragons of maturity and bliss.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">BELLA DEPAULO,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Singled Out</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriages are always moving from one season to another. Sometimes we find ourselves in winter--discouraged, detached, and dissatisfied; other times we experience springtime, with its openness, hope, and anticipation. On still other occasions we bask in the warmth of summer--comfortable, relaxed, enjoying life. And then comes fall with its uncertainty, negligence, and apprehension. The cycle repeats itself many times throughout the life of a marriage, just as the seasons repeat themselves in nature.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">GARY D. CHAPMAN, note to readers,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Summer Breeze</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">A good marriage is good for you. That isn't just a platitude. Mounting research shows that it is the literal truth. When your marriage is healthy, your body and mind are healthier.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">CLIFF ISAACSON,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Good-for-You Marriage</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">GROUCHO MARX,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Wise Words and Quotes</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">HARLAN MILLER,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Wise Words and Quotes</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriage emerged some forty-five hundred years ago and evolved into a widespread and accepted institution that bonded families, maintained order, and created wealth. Unlike today, where many of us are searching for our romantic "soul mate," marriage was originally more about economics than deep emotion.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">ROBI LUDWIG,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Till Death Do Us Part</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriage is a sort of poetical see-saw.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">G. K. CHESTERTON,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>What's Wrong with the World</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">To keep your marriage brimming,</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">With love in the loving cup,</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Whenever you're wrong, admit it,</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Whenever you're right, shut up.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">OGDEN</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;"> NASH,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Marriage Lines: Notes of a Student Husband</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Sometimes I think marriage licenses should be like driver's licenses. They expire after a number of years, and in order to keep going you have to renew. Wouldn't that be kind of genius? It would force you both to look at the relationship, and if it's not working, the marriage would expire so you could go on your merry way, or on the positive side of it, you could look at each other and say we really want to renew. What a way to keep it fresh!!</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">JENNY MCCARTHY,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Life Laughs</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">A summer breeze can be very refreshing; but if we try to put it in a tin can so we can have it entirely to ourselves, the breeze will die. Our beloved is the same. He is like a breeze, a cloud, a flower. If you imprison him in a tin can, he will die. Yet many people do just that. They rob their loved one of his liberty, until he can no longer be himself. They live to satisfy themselves and use their loved one to help them fulfill that. That is not loving; it is destroying.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">THICH NHAT HANH,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Teachings on Love</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">My new found meaning of Marriage is a place where you can be yourself and has breathing space to grow personally and spiritually as and when I want without having to consult my partner about my changes. It is a beautiful place without suffocation, a place where you can learn and teach each other, a place where you do not feel prohibited and a place where you do not have to log in and log out.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">JEANETTE DE JONK,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Unconventional & Spiritual Marriage</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">No greater evil can a man endure</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">As judging by the experience of his life.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">SOPHOCLES, Fragment</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">The secret to a good marriage, as far as I am concerned, is a joke I make: Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">MICHAEL J. FOX,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Good Housekeeping</i>, Apr. 2009</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Maybe marriages were made in heaven, but we believe in giving the old-fashioned porch-swing some credit.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Poems and Paragraphs</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Our natural tendency in the middle of winter is to avoid the elements as much as possible. When the weather turns frigid, we retreat inside for survival and wait for it to warm up or for the season to change. In a winter marriage, there may be a similar tendency to "avoid the elements." Spouses may withdraw within themselves, hunkering down and trying to ride out the cold season, hoping for spring but not taking any positive steps to move their marriage toward spring. However, unlike the natural seasons, the seasons of a marriage do not typically change without some positive action--unless it's a change from bad to worse.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">GARY D. CHAPMAN,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Four Seasons of Marriage</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriage problems are<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>relationship</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>problems, they are the result of how two people<i>interact</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>with each other. You may abandon a troubled marriage, but you will still bring the<i>way</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>you interact with others along with you.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">MARK GUNGOR,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">HERBERT GEORGE WELLS,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Marriage</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriage ... has historically been a battlefield, the site of collisions within and between governments and religions over who should regulate it. But marriage has weathered centuries of skirmishes and change. It has evolved from an institution that was imposed on some people and denied to others, to the loving union of companionship, commitment, and caring between equal partners that we think of today.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">EVAN WOLFSON,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Why Marriage Matters</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">For marriage is a matter of more worth</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Than to be dealt with in attorneyship.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Henry VI</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriage is divine in its institution, sacred in its union, holy in the mystery, sacramental in its signification, honourable in its appellative, religious in its employments: it is advantage to the societies of men, and it is "holiness to the Lord."</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">JEREMY TAYLOR,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Marriage Ring</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">ANDREA DWORKIN,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Pornography</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Before marriage a woman may procure some<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>éclat</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>by pretending to believe in the fiction of her ascendancy; but after marriage, the worshipped beauty becomes a very plain every-day sort of person, and the poetry of the sex's power is at an end for ever!</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">ROBERT BELL,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Marriage: A Comedy in Five Acts</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">It was crazy: marriage. You gave your whole life, your whole happiness, over to one other human being, even the best of them inept at times, prone to reach for some other fulfillment, some other pleasure.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">ANNE TAYLOR FLEMING,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Marriage: A Duet</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship--a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is; a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">ANTHONY STORK,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Integrity of Personality</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">The marriage relationship is one of God's creations for building up people. It gives husbands and wives the chance to minister to an immortal human being in a uniquely intimate fashion. To enjoy the meaningfulness of marriage, then, requires a once-made but ongoing commitment of mutual ministry to our mates and the more we seize them, the more meaning our marriage will have.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">LARRY CRABB,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Marriage Builder</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last--more than passion or even sex.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">SIMONE SIGNORET, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city> Daily Mail, Jul. 4, 1978</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">EVAN WOLFSON,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Why Marriage Matters</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">THORNTON</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;"> WILDER,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Matchmaker</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriage, far from being an end in itself, is a key part of God's plan to fill the earth with a demonstration of who he is. Marriage belongs to God and exists for his glory.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">GARY & BETSY RICUCCI,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Love That Lasts</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Talk and Talkers</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Parerga and Paralipomena</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">EDITH WHARTON, letter, Feb. 12, 1909</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">I'll suffer no daughter of mine to play the fool with her heart, indeed! She shall marry for the purpose for which matrimony was ordained amongst people of birth--that is, for the aggrandisement of her family, the extending of their political influence--for becoming, in short, the depository of their mutual interest. These are the only purposes for which persons of rank ever think of marriage.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">SUSAN FERRIER,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Marriage</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriage is, in actual fact, just a way of living. Before marriage, we don't expect life to be all sunshine and roses, but we seem to expect marriage to be that way.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">LESLIE L. PARROTT,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">SAMUEL JOHNSON, quoted in James Boswell's<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Life of Samuel Johnson</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">ALEXANDER POPE,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Wife of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bath</st1:place></st1:city></i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriage is a serious undertaking. You must submit to family congratulations on certain events, and have a nursery at the top of the house. One doesn't know what a nursery may lead to.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">ROBERT BELL,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Marriage: A Comedy in Five Acts</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">So many promising girls allowed themselves to be submerged altogether in marriage for a time, and when they emerged everyone had forgotten the promise of their début.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">HERBERT GEORGE WELLS,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Marriage</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">What is marriage for?... Toaster ovens and silverware.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">E. J. GRAFF,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>What is Marriage for?</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>see</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>what she is getting.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">HELEN ROWLAND,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>A Guide to Men</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">If sex is supposed to be satisfying and anxiety-free once we are safely ensconced in marriage, how come that's when many of us stop wanting it?</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">DAVID MORRIS SCHNARCH,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Passionate Marriage</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">WILLIAM WYCHERLEY,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Country Wife</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Love and marriage, love and marriage</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Go together like a horse and carriage</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Dad was told by mother</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">You can't have one without the other.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">SAMMY CAHN, "Love and Marriage"</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Until we have a natural, that is, a conscientious world, it cannot be known by experience what natural law will do for the gratification of a supreme affection; but, if you will give me that world, there will be in it very few not called to marriage, provided society allows proper opportunities for acquaintance between marriageable persons.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">JOSEPH COOK,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Marriage: With Preludes on Current Events</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">For what is wedlock forced but a hell,</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">An age of discord and continued strife?</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Whereas the contrary bringeth forth bliss,</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">And is a pattern of celestial peace.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Henry VI</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">There is a connection between what you are putting<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>into</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>your marriage and what you are getting<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>out</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of it.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">MARK GUNGOR,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriage accustomed one to the good things, so one came to take them for granted, but magnified the bad things, so they came to feel as painful as a grain in one's eye. An open window, a forgotten quart of milk, a TV set left blaring, socks on the bathroom floor could become occasions for incredible rage. And something happened sexually in marriage--the swearing to forsake all others, despite its slight observance, had a profound effect. Some people felt trapped by it, impelled to assert what they called freedom. Some accepted it like a rein, and in the effort to avoid pain in the form of hopeless desire, cut off occasions of desire, avoided having long talks at parties with attractive members of the opposite sex. In time, all feeling for the opposite sex was cut off, and intercourse limited to the barest politenesses.... But something happened to you when you did that, a kind of death seeped up from the genitals to the rest of the body, till it showed in the eyes, the gestures, in a certain lifelessness.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">MARILYN FRENCH,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Women's Room</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">All of us, at least unconsciously, marry in the hope of healing our wounds. Even if we do not have a traumatic background, we still have hurts and unfilled needs that we carry inside. We all suffer from feelings of self-doubt, unworthiness, and inadequacy. No matter how nurturing our parents were, we never received enough attention and love. So in marriage we look to our spouse to convince us that we are worthwhile and to heal our infirmities.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">LESLIE L. PARROTT,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">A man in love is incomplete until he has married--then he's finished.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">ZSA ZSA GABOR,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Newsweek</i>, Mar. 28, 1960</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">A marriage bound together by commitments to exploit the other for filling one's own needs (and I fear that most marriages are built on such a basis) can legitimately be described as a "tic on a dog" relationship. Just as a hungry tic clamps on to a nourishing host in anticipation of a meal, so each partner unites with the other in the expectation of finding what his or her personal nature demands. The rather frustrating dilemma, of course, is that in such a marriage there are two tics and no dog!</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">LARRY CRABB,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Marriage Builder</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">One of the best wedding gifts God gave you was a full-length mirror called your spouse. Had there been a card attached, it would have said, "Here's to helping you discover what you're<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>really</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>like!"</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">GARY & BETSY RICUCCI, quoted in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Sacred Marriage</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Let me not to the marriage of true minds</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Admit impediments. Love is not love</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Which alters when it alteration finds,</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Or bends with the remover to remove.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Oh, no, it is an ever-fixèd mark</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">That looks on tempests and is never shaken;</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">It is the star to every wandering bark</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Whose worth's unknown, although its height be taken.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, sonnet cxvi</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">In the New Testament a totally new concept of marriage is being introduced; it is directly dependent upon the "Good News" of the Resurrection which was brought to Christ. A Christian is called--already in this world--to experience new life, to become a citizen of the Kingdom; and he can do so in marriage. But then marriage ceases to be either a simple satisfaction of temporary natural urges, or a means for securing an illusory survival through posterity. It is a unique union of two beings in love, two beings who can transcend their own humanity and thus be united not only "with each other," but also "in Christ."</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">JOHN MEYENDORFF,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Marriage: An Orthodox Perspective</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">HELEN ROWLAND,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Reflections of a Bachelor Girl</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">How the world can change,</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">It can change like that,</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Due to one little word:</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">"Married."</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">FRED EBB,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Cabaret</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">HELEN ROWLAND,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>A Guide to Men</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Much <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ado</st1:place></st1:city> About Nothing</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriage is socialism among two people.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">BARBARA EHRENREICH,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Worst Years of Our Lives</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">No marriage is "too dead" for the Lord to restore.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">CHARLES R. SWINDOLL,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Marriage: From Surviving to Thriving</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">RICHARD BRINSLEY <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">SHERIDAN</st1:place></st1:city>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Rivals</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">If society will adopt the rule of nature, and justify no marriage without a supreme affection, the evils of marriage without love will be sufficiently cured. Those who marry without the consent of Nature may securely expect trouble.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">JOSEPH COOK,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Marriage: With Preludes on Current Events</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">ELLEN KEY, "The Morality of Woman"</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriage is also a social statement, preeminently describing and defining a person's relationship and place in society. Marital status, along with what we do for a living, is often one of the first pieces of information we give to others about ourselves. It's so important, in fact, that most married people wear a symbol of their marriage on their hand.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">EVAN WOLFSON,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Why Marriage Matters</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry.... If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">EZRA POUND, letter to his mother, 1909</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">KATHERINE ANNE PORTER,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Days Before</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman.... It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Venus in Furs</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriage, the relationship of husband and wife, a faithful union, marks the first human compact. The earliest recognized distinction between that which is lawful and that which is unlawful found its expression in marriage. In some places the old names for "law" and "marriage" are interchangeable. Whatever ceremonies may have accompanied it, however some (at all times) have evaded its obligation, the primæval conscience, the original human instinct, before the formation of any Church or code, recognized the need of a "covenant" first in marriage. Around it laws have grown. It is no invention of legislators. It arose from the divinely implanted necessities of "human" life, and a sense of its excellence above that of other animals "which have no understanding." Thus marriage grew to be called an "honourable estate;" to be surrounded with ceremony and fenced with safeguards.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">HARRY JONES,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Courtship and Marriage</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">JOHN UPDIKE, foreward,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Too Far To Go</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">The horrors of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">MARQUIS DE SADE,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>L'Histoire de Juliette, ou les Prospérités</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">One hundred percent of divorces start with a marriage.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">MARK GUNGOR,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Laugh Your Way To a Better Marriage</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions today.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">WILLIAM BOLITHO,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Twelve Against the Gods</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Nobody's ready for marriage. Marriage makes you ready for marriage.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">DAVID MORRIS SCHNARCH,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Passionate Marriage</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship--only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">ERICA JONG,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>How To Save Your Own Life</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">The expectations you bring to your partnership can make or break your marriage. Don't miss out on the sterling moments of marriage because your ideals are out of sync with your partner's. Don't believe the myth that you and your partner automatically come with the same expectations for marriage. Instead, remember that the more openly you discuss your differing expectations, the more likely you are to create a vision of marriage that you agree on--and that is unique to the two of you.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">LESLIE L. PARROTT,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say--"Come, be my wife!" With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the beautifullest external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the uncleanliest traffic that defiles the world.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">OLIVE SCHREINER,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Story of an African Farm</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Focus on your marriage. Because that's the nucleus of the home, whatever you do to restore its health and strength will naturally restore what's broken among the other relationships. If you have no children yet, this will make a comfortable nest for them to begin life well. If you have children, the changes you make in your marriage will affect the rest of the household more quickly and dramatically than you think.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">CHARLES R. SWINDOLL,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Marriage: From Surviving to Thriving</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">HELEN ROWLAND,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>A Guide to Men</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">JEAN KERR,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Snake Has All the Lines</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, letter to Maria Gisborne</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">LORD BYRON, "To Eliza"</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Marriage is generally used as a term for a social institution. As such it may be defined as a relation of one or more men to one or more women which is recognized by custom or law and involves certain rights and duties both in the case of the parties entering the union and in the case of children born of it. These rights and duties vary among different peoples, and cannot therefore all be included in a general definition: but there must, of course, be something which they have in common. Marriage always implies the right of sexual intercourse: society holds such intercourse allowable in the case of husband and wife, and, generally speaking, even regards it as their duty to gratify in some measure the other partner's desire. But the right to sexual intercourse is not necessarily exclusive. It can hardly be said to be so, from the legal point of view, unless adultery is regarded as an offense which entitles the other partner to dissolve the marriage union, and this, as we know, is by no means always the case.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">EDWARD WESTERMARCK,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The History of Human Marriage</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">A woman will always cherish the memory of the man who wanted to marry her. A man, of the woman who he didn't.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">GRENVILLE KLEISER,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Dictionary of Proverbs</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">You shouldn't marry anyone you have to try hard for.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">RACHAEL RAY,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Good Housekeeping</i>, Jul. 2010</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">You're married, and suddenly you have your own family. There's a nice comfort in that. That part of your life is certain ... You've got your home in that other person.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">SCARLETT JOHANSSON,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Good Housekeeping</i>, Oct. 2010</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Selfish husbands have this advantage in maintaining with easy-minded wives a rigid and inflexible behaviour, viz., that if they<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>do</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>by any chance grant a little favour, the ladies receive it with such transports of gratitude as they would never think of showing to a lord and master who was accustomed to give them everything they asked for.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Men's Wives</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">A successful marriage is the result of falling in love often--with the same person.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">CROFT M. PENTZ,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Complete Book of Zingers</i></span><span style="color: maroon; font-weight: bold; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing: 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 100.0%;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">In the choice of a wife, we ought to make use of our ears, and not our eyes.</span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">WELLINS CALCOTT,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Thoughts Moral and Divine</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">A single life is doubtless preferable to a married one, where prudence and affection do not accompany the choice; but where they do, there is no terrestrial happiness equal to the married state.</span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">WELLINS CALCOTT,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Thoughts Moral and Divine</i></span><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">All things do go a-courting,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">In earth, or sea, or air,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">God hath made nothing single<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">But thee in His world so fair.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">-Emily Dickinson<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">I love thee - I love thee,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">'Tis all that I can say<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">It is my vision in the night,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">My dreaming in the day.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">-Thomas Hood<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. -Rita Rudner<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. -Author Unknown<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. -Michael Leunig<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. -Author Unknown<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. -Zora Neale Hurston<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Let all thy joys be as the month of May,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">And all thy days be as a marriage day.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">-Francis Quarles<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. -Author Unknown<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Love me and the world is mine. -David Reed<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. -Friedrich Nietzsche<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">My heart to you is given:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Oh, do give yours to me;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">We'll lock them up together,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">And throw away the key.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">-Frederick Saunders<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Marriage, n: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. -Ambrose Bierce<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">My whole heart for my whole life. -French saying used on poesy rings<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee. -English saying used on poesy rings<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Spouse: someone who'll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single. -Author Unknown<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">True love stories never have endings. -Richard Bach<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. -Martin Luther<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. -Author Unknown<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. -Peter Devries<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">The Oriole weds his mottled mate,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">The Lily weds the bee;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Heaven's marriage ring is round the earth,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Let me bind thee?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">-Author Unknown<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">The highest happiness on earth is marriage. -William Lyon Phelps<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Tell me how many beads there are<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">In a silver chain<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Of evening rain,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Unravelled from the tumbling main,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">And threading the eye of a yellow star: -<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">So many times do I love again.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">-Thomas Lovell Beddoes<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">We have the greatest pre-nuptial agreement in the world. It's called love. -Gene Perret<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Who, being loved, is poor? -Oscar Wilde<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">My love as deep; the more I give to thee,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">The more I have, both are infinite.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">-William Shakespeare<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. -Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints, 1966<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour. -M.M. Musselman<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">There is no such cozy combination as man and wife. -Menander<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Think not because you are now wed<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">That all your courtship's at an end.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">-Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Two souls, one heart. -French saying used on poesy rings<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. -Emily Brontë<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge. -Mrs Patrick Campbell<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">When love is not madness, it is not love. -Pedro Calderon de la Barca<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">When the one man loves the one woman and the one woman loves the one man, the very angels desert heaven and come and sit in that house and sing for joy. -The Brahma Sutras<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. -Author Unknown<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">[W]hen you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. -Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
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</div>Hindu Marriages In Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13357869299482718795noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808721314071413493.post-70109241902557954652010-11-13T21:59:00.000-08:002010-11-13T21:59:47.178-08:00Marriage Halls in Dindigul<div class="MsoNormal"></div><ul style="line-height: 200%;"><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px;">A.K.S Mahal - <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Natham Road</st1:address></st1:street></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px;">Berna Mahal -<st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Trichy Road</st1:address></st1:street></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px;">Co-op Housing Board society Hall -Ganapathi Agraharam, Dindigul</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px;">Christhuva Vanniar Mahal -L.G.B. Compound, V.M.R.Patti</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px;">C.S.G.R. Mandapam -<st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Muniappan Kovil St</st1:address></st1:street>, Dindigul</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px;">Deivanai Ammal Mahalinga Nadar Thirumana Mandapam -<st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Natham Road</st1:address></st1:street></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px;">Ethuka Pallivasal Thirumana Mandapam -R. V. Nagar, Dindigul</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px;">Geetha Illam Thirumana Mandapam -Opposite to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Annamalaiyar</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype></st1:place></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px;">Indu Vanniar Thirumana Mandapam -Mettupatti</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px;">K.G.R. Thirumana Mandapam -R.S.road</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px;">Kamarajar Kalayana Mandapam -<st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Siluvathur Road</st1:address></st1:street></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px;">Kalpothu Nadar Thirumana Mandapam -<st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Solai Hall Road</st1:address></st1:street></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px;">Krishna Mani kallar Community Hall -<st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Thadicombu Road</st1:address></st1:street></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px;">Lions Club Thirumana Mandapam -M.S.P. Salai</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px;">Naidu Mahajanam Thirumana Mandapam -Round Road</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px;">N.S. Commuity Hall -R.S. road</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px;">Nagarathar Thirumana Mandapam -Opposite to Kudakanaru Illam</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px;">Narayana Iyer Mandapam -Y.M.R.Patti</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px;">P.K.G.Thirumana Mandapam<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span> -R.S.Road</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px;">Ramalakshmi Mahal -Thiruvalluvar Salai</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px;">Rajalakshmi Thirumana Mandapam<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>-<st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Natham Road</st1:address></st1:street></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px;">Sakthivel Mandram -<st1:place w:st="on">East Govindapuram</st1:place></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px;">Sahaya Matha Makkal Mandram -Kamala Nehru Mat. Centre Street</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px;">Sathankudi Nadar Thirumana Mandapam - <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Madurai Road</st1:address></st1:street></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px;">Savai Perumakkal Thirumana Mandapam - <st1:place w:st="on">West Govindapuram</st1:place></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px;">S.K.C. Thirumana Mandapam -Ramanathapuram</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px;">Thirupathi venkatajalapathi Thirumana Mandapam -<st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Solai Hall Road</st1:address></st1:street></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px;">Tharagu Mandi Varthaga Sanga Thirumana Mandapam -<st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Palani Road</st1:address></st1:street></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px;">Tharagu Mandi Gumasthakkal Thirumana Mandapam -<st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Nandavanam Road</st1:address></st1:street></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px;">Viswakarma Thirumana Mandapam -R.V.Nagar, Near Fire Station</span></li>
</ul>Hindu Marriages In Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13357869299482718795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808721314071413493.post-29602794257278962962010-10-21T20:46:00.000-07:002011-02-23T07:14:16.263-08:00Tulsi Vivah<div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #003300; font-size: 18pt;">Tulasi Kalyanam / Tulasi Vivaaham, Thulasi Thirumanam <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #003300; font-size: 16pt;">Tulsi means Holy Basil. Vivah means marriage. Here, The Tulsi weds the Hindu god Vishnu or his avatar <st1:place w:st="on">Krishna</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #003300; font-size: 16pt;">The tulsi plant is held sacred by the Hindus as it is regarded as an incarnation of Mahalakshmi / Mahalaxmi, born as Vrinda (Brinda). <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #003300; font-size: 16pt;">She is often called as Vishnupriya, the beloved of Vishnu<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #003300; font-size: 16pt;">The Tulsi wedding signifies the end of the monsoon and the beginning of the Hindu wedding season.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #003300; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">As per Hindu mythology, Vrinda (Tulsi) was married to demon king Jalandhar. He was the king of oceans and had immense powers. Demon Jalandar harassed all. Due to the effect of prayer of Tulsi, he became invincible, and no god was able to harm him. However Jalandhar was killed by Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu took the form of Jalandhar and stayed with Tulsi. Vrinda crused Vishnu and turned Him into a special auspicious stone called Shaligram and then burnt herself on her husband's funeral pyre. The Tulsi plant came into existence from her body. (Tulsi leaves are essential for Vishnu pooja / puja). Lord Vishnu declared that those who perform the sacred marriage of Tulsi with Him (Vishnu) will get great merits and devotion. Tulsi vivah is being celebrated in different days in different parts of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>, but usually on Prabodhini Ekadashi. It is an important ritual observed in the month of Kartik (October – November).On this wedding day, tulsi is married to Shaligram. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #003300; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">The marriage of Tulsi with Lord Maha Vishnu resembles the traditional Hindu wedding. Vrindavan (Tulsivan) is coloured and decorated as a bride. Sugarcane, branches of tamarind tree and that of gooseberry (amla) are kept near the tulsi plant. Various vegetarian food are offered to Tulsi Vrindavan and Lord Maha Vishnu and the Prasadam (Prasad) is distributed to all.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>Hindu Marriages In Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13357869299482718795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808721314071413493.post-42992175279935659192010-10-09T05:35:00.000-07:002010-10-09T05:57:32.662-07:00Marriage arranging services.<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: maroon;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Marriage arranging services.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: maroon;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: maroon;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: maroon;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">In </span><st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">India</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> there are a lot of matrimonial services, assisting those willing to marry. These services generally help in arranging the weddings in many ways. Starting from the selection of a suitable bride or a bridegroom, these marriage information centres play many vital and important roles.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: maroon;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: maroon;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: maroon;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Matching of horoscope is generally considered important. There are brokers for the arrangement of weddings. Many Hindus believe in astrology. Therefore they give the horoscopes of those to be married to the marriage brokers to search and find perfect or at least suitable match. The matrimonial service people give very useful services to select respective life partners. Recently I viewed a simple advertisement for assisting arranged marriages. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: maroon;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: maroon;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: maroon;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">The content of the advertisement says as under.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">P.R. Marriage information centre<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Ours is a social service. We undertake matrimonial service for the people of all religions and casts. It is a wedding service. People who search for suitable life partners (Spouse) are requested to visit our marriage arranging service. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Are you looking for a suitable bride or a bridegroom? Please visit us at the following address. No registration charges. Free booking. Select suitable horoscopes at the rate of only Rs.30/- per horoscope. No broker commission.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #003300; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">K. Ponnuchamy Asari,</span></span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #003300; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">P.R. store,</span></span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><span style="color: #003300; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Main Road</span></span></st1:address></st1:street><span style="color: #003300; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">,</span></span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #003300; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Opposite to canara Bank,</span></span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #003300; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Natham – 624401</span></span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #003300; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Dindigul District,</span></span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #003300; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Tamilnadu,</span></span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="color: #003300; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">India</span></span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="color: #003300; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Mobile phone (Cell) +91 9943573242 </span></span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: #ff6600;">K. Ponnuchamy Achari is a well reputed business person in Natham. His father, P. Kulanthaivelu Achari had been a well known Viswakarma Nattanmaikarar in Natham.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now also one can find a street in this town bearing his name “<st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Kulanthaivelu Achari Street</st1:address></st1:street>”. </span></b></span><span style="color: #ff6600; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>Hindu Marriages In Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13357869299482718795noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808721314071413493.post-5938288581301837102010-01-24T21:53:00.000-08:002011-02-23T07:07:36.421-08:00Manglik dosh bride to marry Sacred fig<em><span style="color: #330033;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">If a Hindu bride has Manglik dosh (chevvai Dosham), the bride groom also should have it. Then the effect of one is cancelled by the other. This is a major problem in finding a suitable bride or bride groom. Several marriages are delayed in proper match finding process.<br />
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In Hindu tradition, if the broom doesn’t have the manglik dosh, in order to neutralize the influence of evil manglik dosh of the bride, she should marry a Sacred fig tree (Peepal / peepul / pippala / Arasa maram / Arayal) or a plantain tree (banana tree / vazhai maram / vaalai maram / waalai maram) before the broom ties the Mangal sutra. This is a cleansing ceremony. Alternatively, the bride marries a clay urn and breaks it soon after the nuptial ceremonies. This signifies that the bride has become a widow, and the manglik dosh (chevvai Dosham) problem has been solved.</span> </span></em>Hindu Marriages In Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13357869299482718795noreply@blogger.com2