- “A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason – and indeed all the sweets of life.” ~ Joseph Addison
- “A happy man marries the girl he loves; a happier man loves the girl he marries.” ~ anonymous
- “You don’t need to be on the same wavelength to succeed in marriage. You just need to be able to ride each other’s waves.” ~ Toni Sciarra Poynter
- “Spouse: someone who’ll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn’t have had if you’d stayed single.” ~ Anonymous
- “We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.” ~ Jacques Maritain
- “Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.” – Samuel Johnson
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, and always with the same person.” ~ Mignon McLaughlin - “The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.” ~Peter De Vries
- “To keep the fire burning brightly there’s one easy rule: Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart – about a finger’s breadth – for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule.” ~Marnie Reed Crowell
- “A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous.” ~ Ingrid Bergman
- “Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.” ~Simone Signoret
- “A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.” ~ Anne Taylor Fleming
- “Woke up in bed with a gorgeous woman, who I’m going to have lunch and the rest of my life with.” ~ Jason Barmer
- “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.” ~ Judith Viorst
- “In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.” ~ Robert Anderson, Solitaire & Double Solitaire
- “In the opinion of the world, marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the opposite: it begins all.” ~ Anne Sophie Swetchine
- “A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.” ~ Paul Sweeney
- “Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage.” ~ Finnish Proverb
- “A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.” ~ James H. Boren
- “Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration continues to this day.” ~ Gene Perret
- “A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.” ~ Andre Maurois
- “There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.” ~ Martin Luther
- “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness – and call it love – true love.” ~ Robert Fulghugm
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See What All that Marrying Gets You!
I’ve never properly introduced you to my family. You hear me tease and torment my mother Kathleen in my blog all the time. She’s a good sport, and believe me, she gives as good as she gets. Luckily, she lives very close to me. I see her several times a week, and speak to her at least daily. Mother illustrates my blog. She has always loved sketching but came into professional art late in life. Continue reading
Rescue Dinner
Bud is a good man, but I can’t live with him when he’s hungry. I have no doubt he’d lay down his life from me, but I do believe he’d rather I ran around with another man than cook around on him. Anyway, I digress. At five p.m. Today, it occurred to me I’d never made it to the grocery store today. I had an egg plant, half a pound of ground sausage, 1/2 cup leftover brown gravy, and half a cup of frozen seasoned bread crumbs. I sautéed half a diced onion and some fresh garlic and the sausage. To the mix I added chopped eggplant, while cooking the shelled out eggplant in the microwave for two minutes. I seasoned the mix with salt, pepper, parsley, Tony Zacharie’s Cajun Seasoning, sprinkled with Feta cheese and baked at 400 degrees for 20 minutes. It was excellent served with home canned green beans. I am still married.
Five Photos, Five Stories Day One Hard Time Marrying
Thanks Author S B Mazing for challenging me to join her Five Photos, Five Stories. This is just the type challenge I love. It stimulates me to do what I want to do. I will be writing a series based on vintage photos. This will eventually become a book. I have four others in front of it. Who knows if it might push itself further up the line? I don’t know the story behind this photograph since it came from an estate sale. I just love it. It hangs in my writing room. I know I am not telling the true story, but at least I am giving my friends a voice. Now, the best part, I’d like to challenge Mom, at Maybe someone should write that down to join me. I just love her stories and pictures!
Hard Time Marrying
Their union had a bleak start. Meeting at the train in the freezing rain, she clutched his letter. They married minutes later at the preacher’s house, barely speaking as they shivered the two hours home in his open wagon. In her letter, she’d not mentioned the two little ones, though with all fairness, the marriage was only one of need on both parts. They were proof she could bear the children he hoped for. Burning with fever by the time they got to his homestead; dead by the next sundown, she left him with two little ones he had no taste for. Barely reaching his knee, they toddled mutely in perpetual ,soggy diapers dragging to their knees, uttering gibberish only they understood. As soon as he could get her wrapped in a quilt, he buried this stranger wife and headed back to dusty Talphus, Texas with the sad burden of her orphaned little ones. The church or the town would have to do for them. Loading them in a snug in a bed of hay, wrapped in a ragged quilt, hay heaped over them. he pitied and grieved for them on the long trip back to town, knowing the hard life they faced. Stopping several times to make sure they were warmly covered, he was relieved to find them pink and warm.
He hardened his heart against them, knowing only too well the life they were facing. He’d never known family, just been passed from hand to hand.
to be continued
Footloose and Fancyfree (Part 2)
Even though the occasion of Bobo and Inez’s marriage preceeded my birth by a few days, Mother has told me the story so often, I feel I was there. Bobo showed up with his bride just hours after they married. No doubt, he was proud of her. He was twenty-seven; she, fifteen and visibly pregnant. Now, he’d be arrested. Quite a buxom lass, she was lovely. Continue reading
My Parents’ Marriage (from Kathleen’s Memoirs of The Great Depression)
The top picture is of Mary Elizabeth Perkins about the time she married. The second is of Mary Elizabeth and Roscoe Holdaway when they were in their late sixties or early seventies. The third picture is of the Holdaway Homestead in Red River County Texas. The young blond man in the center with the bicycle was Roscoe. He was eighteen at the time this was taken. He was twenty-eight and Mary Elizabeth twenty-two at the time of their marriage. They probably didn’t expect to have children since their first child wasn’t born for six years. This is the story of their courtship and marriage from the memoirs of their daughter Kathleen. Continue reading
Surprise
I need to change my expectations. Bud and I have been married a long,long time. He just called me out to the shop to see a Big Surprise. I was somewhat caught up in it since I had asked him to do a number of things for me. He had cleaned off his fly tying bench and installed some repurposed speakers. I couldn’t spot the surprise. Where would a person ever get the idea a surprise was for them? I need to work on myself.
Happy Anniversary! (Joke)
John had his head down on his crossed arms and was crying his eyes out when Mary came down on the morning of their twenty-fifth anniversary.
“What’s the matter, dear?”
“I was just thinking. Do you remember, twenty-five years ago today, when we were going together, how young and beautiful you were, and how madly in love we were?”
“Of course.” She smiled at the sweet memory.
“Do you remember how your daddy came down and caught us on the couch and said, ‘Either you marry my daughter tonight, or you’re going to jail?’ ”
“How could I ever forget that?”
“Well, I’d have gotten out tomorrow!”
Let ’em Get Their Own Damned Cheesecake!
A simple comment can say so much. For instance, I overheard a comment from my seventeen-year-old son that cleared things up for me far more than hours of counseling ever could have. He was trying to enlist his sister in some planned mayhem, probably because he had no money for gasoline, and she replied, “Now, Mom and Dad aren’t going to be happy when they find this out.” Continue reading
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