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September 14, 2013 by kevinstilley

Marriage – select quotes

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One man has never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague.
~ Robert Burton, in The Anatomy of Melancholy

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
~ G. K. Chesterton

Every woman should marry, and no man.
~ Benjamin Disraeli, in Lothair

Vitium uxoris aut tollendum aut ferendum est. Qui tollit vitium, uxorem commodiorem praestat; qui fert, sese meliorem facit. [A wife’s faults must either be corrected or put up with. Who corrects the faults, makes his wife more pleasant; who puts up with them, makes himself a better man.]
~ Lucius Afranius, in Satirae Menippeae, De Officio mariti

Getting married for sex is like buying a 747 for the free peanuts.
~ Jeff Foxworthy

A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor

The institution of marriage makes a parasite of woman, an absolute dependent. It incapacitates her for life’s struggle, annihilates her social consciousness, paralyzes her imagination, and then imposes its gracious protection, which is in reality a snare, a travesty on human character.
~ Emma Goldman

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
~ Ruth Bell Graham

Once a man’s married he’s absolutely bitched.
~ Ernest Hemingway, in The Three-Day Blow

A good marriage is when you’re married not to someone you can live with, but to someone you really cannot live without.
~ Dr. Howard Hendricks

Marriage: A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other for ninety-nine years, or until death do them join.
~ Elbert Hubbard

I want my time to be taken up by chores, errands, appointments, and arguments. In other words, I want to get married.
~ Jared Kintz

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sin.
~ Laozi

Marriage–a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose.
~ Beverly Nichols

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage – they’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.
~ Rita Rudner

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
~ Barbra Streisand

If you want to become more like Jesus, I can’t imagine any better thing to do than to get married.
~ Gary Thomas

Yes, your spouse might be difficult to love at times, but that’s what marriage is for–to teach us how to love.
~ Gary Thomas

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
~ Paul Tournier

One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do. Two can be as bad as one. It’s the loneliest number since the number one…
~ Three Dog Night

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
~ Henry Youngman

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September 27, 2008 by kevinstilley

Premarital Counseling Questions

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In the Minister’s Marriage Manual, Samuel Ward Hutton offers the following questions as some of those he uses when performing premarital counseling.  I am not overly impressed with them, and have a few that I would like to add.  However, before doing so, I know that there are many readers of this blog who do premarital counseling (and a few married folk who probably have ideas).  What questions would you add to the following list?

How long have you two known each other?

For what period of time have you been  engaged?

Have either of you been engaged before?

What interests  do you  have in common?

What is your attitude toward your future inlaws?

Will both of you work, or only one?

What will the combined income be?

Have you  considered working out a budget of expenses in keeping with your total income?

Do you plan to rent, or will you attempt to buy a home?

Which of you will control the purse strings?

Is either of  you inclined to be extravagant or a “tight wad”?

Do you plan to open one or more charge accounts?

What is your attitude toward children?

Have you had any arguments?

Do  either or both of you have quick tempers?

What recreation can you both enjoy?

How will you face discouragement or elation?

Are there any particular problems that bother you?

Are you deeply in love with one another?

What is the church background of each of you?

If you come from different faiths, what are your plans for agreement?

Have you considered asking a blessing on the food before each meal?

What has been your experience and practice in prayer?

Have you carried a responsibility in your local church, such  as leading a youth group, teaching in the church school or singing in choir?

Some have found a brief devotional at the breakfast table helpful.  Would this be a practice you are open to?

What are your reading habits?

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