“Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.”
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When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.
