Sexless Marriage Quotes

Elisabetta Gonzaga de Montefeltro, Duchess of Urbino, was one of the most celebrat women of her age. . . She was much praised for her saintliness in enduring a sexless marriage to Guidobaldo who was both impotent and for much of his life crippled by what was described as 'gout' but was probably rheumatoid arthritis, which deformed his body from a young age. According to the archivist Luzio, despite his impotence Guidobaldo was extremely erotically inclined, so that Elisabetta was in a state of suspense every day in case he might fall upon her and have a relapse. ~ Sarah Bradford

O'rourke's alienation from the married woman comes in part because she's filling in the imaginative blank of that woman's union with a fantasy of fulfillment. If loneliness is a want of intimacy, then being single lends itself to loneliness because the loving partnerships we imagine in comparison are always, in our minds, intimate; they are not distant or empty of abusive or dysfunctional. We don't fantasize about being in bad marriages, or about being in what were once good marriages that have since gone stale or sexless or hard, creating their own profound emotional pain. ~ Rebecca Traister

Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside. ~ Frank Pittman

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. ~ Joseph Joubert

A man wants too many things before marriage, but only peace after it. ~ Pawan Mishra

Marriage is a marriage- love or arranged. Both require the same level of commitment. ~ Swati Kumar

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

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The power a wife is not to prove her husband but to improve him. ~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage. ~ Gertrude Stein

It made him feel like a mom, ineffectual and sexless. ~ Christopher Bram

Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships. ~ Robert Breault

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. ~ Andre Maurois

I almost thought that marriage was a cure to loneliness, alas! so many are lonely inside marriage. Then I realized it is not marriage that takes the loneliness away, but when both within marriage honour God and the vows made before Him. ~ Gift Gugu Mona

Most of a husband's life is spent in doing research on his wife. ~ Pawan Mishra

It wasn't an unhappy marriage? Could a marriage be happy, standing on a shaky ground of adultery and a disregard for the wife's feelings? He didn't say anything; he listened to her quietly. ~ Neena H. Brar

A spouse who refuses to cultivate or fan physical intimacy first devalued the marriage in their mind and priorities. Spouses who defile their marriage bed first lost honor for their marriage. ~ Ngina Otiende

At the beginning, your love supports your marriage. Later on, your marriage supports your love. ~ Larry Christiansen

A good marriage isn't something you find; it's something you make. ~ Gary L. Thomas

And things don't change in a marriage until the spouse who is taking responsibility for a problem that is not hers decides to say or do something about it. ~ Henry Cloud

There is such pleasure in long-term marriage that I really would hate to be
my age and not have had a long-term marriage. Remember, sustaining a pleasurable,
long-term marriage takes effort, deliberateness and an intention to learn about
one another. In other words, marriage is for grown-ups. ~ Cokie Roberts

Each divorce is the death of a small civilization. ~ Pat Conroy

It is lack of communication that leads to unhappy marriage. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued. ~ Helen Rowland

If one of you is walking through a dark valley personally of course it affects the marriage. But it is not about the marriage. ~ John Eldredge

When we are at peace within our marriage, the effects can be astounding! We will raise happier children, become better employees, and overall find the joy in life. ~ Lindsey Rietzsch

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient. ~ Voltaire

Such a mad marriage never was before. ~ William Shakespeare

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. ~ Billy Sunday

We've managed to make a good marriage. This I say with all humility. It's a marriage in which there is nothing that can be hurt by the roughest usage. It's a marriage that you can let yourself go in, a marriage in which you can put your feet up and relax. ~ Louise Dickinson Rich

We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can't have different definitions on something as fundamental as marriage. The Marriage Protection Amendment is the only solution to this problem. ~ Ernest Istook

I thought there was no use for me in reading Sun Tzu and Machiavelli because I am neither a warrior nor a politician, but it turned out to be useful when I married ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

It is not love to ignore your spouse's sin, or brokenness, or immaturity. ~ John Eldredge

Marriage is a blast. Like a bomb. ~ Julieanne O'Connor

The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me. ~ Robert Breault

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. ~ Sydney Smith

As soon as we confront concrete marriages with other foreign images-such as well-being, happiness, a home for children-marriage appears to be senseless, withered, moribund, and kept alive largely by a great apparatus of psychologists and marriage counselors. Marriage is dead. Long live marriage! ~ Adolf Guggenbhuhl-Craig

Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo. ~ Peter Farb

I am not against marriage - without marriage, ninety-nine percent jokes will disappear from the world. How I can be against marriage? I am all for it. ~ Rajneesh

God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God. ~ Max Lucado

I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed. ~ Kirstie Alley

It's like marriage. The race there is between total knowledge of each other and death. If death comes first, it's considered a successful marriage. ~ Peter S. Beagle

It isn't a case of marriage having been tried and found wanting. In this 20th century world, true marriage is deeply wanted, but largely untried. ~ Richard Lessor

What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage. ~ Gary Chapman

Live each day as if it could be the last day that you spend with your husband or wife. ~ Lindsey Rietzsch

If you go into it, it is marriage that has created prostitution. And prostitution will never disappear from the world unless marriage disappears; it is the shadow of marriage. In fact prostitutes have been saving marriage. It is a safety measure so the man can go once in a while, just for a change, to any other woman, a prostitute, and save his marriage and its permanency. ~ Rajneesh

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. ~ Isadora Duncan

Human marriage has always been intended by God to serve as a prophetic whisper of the eternal marriage. Every real marriage in the world today manages that statement to some degree, however weakly, because that is what marriage is. Very few realities in our lives bear such a sacred meaning and deserve such special consideration. ~ Ray Ortlund

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals. ~ Vaughn Walker

You need to be my wife to win with me. ~ Pawan Mishra

There is no destination in marriage. It is the journey that matters. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Marriage is a cheerful commitment. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce. ~ Roseanne Barr

Marriage is sleeping together in a bed a little too narrow. ~ Jeffrey Rasley

Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse. ~ P.G. Wodehouse

Like most complicated things where it's easy to get derailed, their marriage was successful because they mastered the basics. From that mastery they could weather anything. ~ Fawn Weaver

If you can figure out how to choose happiness in your marriage daily, and stop sweating the small stuff, it'll take ten years off your life. ~ Fawn Weaver

Relationship math suggests that It is rare for two people to enter marriage and one person is to blame for everything that goes wrong ~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

The boring thing with 'No sex before marriage' is that kids will never get to attend their parents' wedding. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The heart of marriage is memories. ~ Bill Cosby

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real. ~ C.S. Lewis

There is usually less romance in marriage than in any other relationship of life. But the general idea concerning marriage is that it is all or nearly all romance. ~ Alice Moore Hubbard

So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first. ~ Lillian Russell

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. ~ Sam Kinison

I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership. ~ Carson Daly

Nothing's queer," stated the Virginian, "except marriage and lightning. Them two occurrences can still give me a sensation of surprise. ~ Owen Wister

Marriage is the most sacred union in which much respect is given in society to those who treat it as such. ~ Lindsey Rietzsch

Better no marriage, than a marriage short of the best. ~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Marriage is a holy bond because it permits two people to help each other work out their spiritual destinies. God declared marriage to be good. ~ Billy Graham

Love does not need true copies signed by a registrar of marriages. ~ Nilesh Rathod

You get what you tolerate. ~ Henry Cloud

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. ~ Cass Daley

She was married, true; but if one's husband was always sailing round Cape Horn, was it marriage? If one liked him, was it marriage? If one liked other people, was it marriage? And finally, if one still wished, more than anything in the whole world, to write poetry, was it marriage? She had her doubts. ~ Virginia Woolf

Recently, a lot of Americans have swapped the awkward phrase 'same-sex marriage' for the term 'marriage equality'. This phrase is ordinarily implied to mean that same-sex couples will have the rights different-sexed couples do. But it could also mean that marriage is between equals. That's not what traditional marriage was. Throughout much of history in the west, the laws defining marriage made the husband essentially an owner and the wife a possession. Or the man a boss and the woman a slave. ~ Rebecca Solnit

A bad marriage is worse than no marriage at all. ~ Neil Clark Warren

The decision to get married will impact one's life more deeply than almost any decision in life. Yet people continue to rush into marriage with little or no preparation for making a marriage successful. In fact, many couples give far more attention to making plans for the wedding than making plans for marriage. The wedding festivities last only a few hours, while the marriage, we hope, will last for a lifetime ~ Gary Chapman

A band is like a marriage, and if you're in a marriage with someone, and you lose yourself in that marriage, the relationship is over, really. ~ Richie Sambora

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage. ~ Mary Wesley

Supporting the definition of marriage as one man and one woman is not anti-gay: it is pro-traditional marriage. And if support for traditional marriage is bigotry, then Barack Obama was a bigot until just before the 2012 election. ~ Marco Rubio

The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens. ~ Ted Cruz

And what do we have? A profound if sexless intimacy of a kind I've never known with either man or woman since childhood, and perhaps not even then. ~ Andrew Pyper

Each marriage bears the footprints of economic and cultural trends which originate far outside marriage. ~ Arlie Russell Hochschild

Marriage is a great blessing, but it can be a great lesson ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You've got to work on it. ~ Dick Smothers

Reason is emotion for the sexless. ~ Heathcote Williams

The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved. ~ Rebecca West

A lot of the heartache and confusion we feel in dating stems from treating dating mainly as practice for marriage (clarity through intimacy), instead of as discernment toward marriage (clarity and then intimacy). ~ Marshall Segal

Marriage - as its veterans know well - is the continuous process of getting used to things you hadn't expected. ~ Thomas Mullen

I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage. ~ Kyle Chandler

I love the idea of marriage. I definitely want marriage and little Kellans running around. ~ Kellan Lutz

One of the things that kept our marriage intact was community. Friends who spurred us on to finish strong together. And it's friends who esteem marriage that will do this; not people who belittle it or question the value of it. ~ Ashleigh Slater

Marriage is love put to it's ultimate test - the grindstone of life. Where the idealism of love meets the everydayness of marriage. ~ Carew Papritz

Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal. ~ Swami Vivekananda

Some people rushed into divorce even faster than they rushed into marriage. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate. ~ Dennis Rainey

Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we'll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay. ~ Jess C. Scott

Traditionally, marriage is one arena where states have all but plenary power; it took until 1967 for the Supreme Court to tell states they could not prohibit interracial marriage. ~ Jeff Greenfield

Every kind of relationship needs encouragement from both parties. Be it marriage, dating, friendship, enmity etc. ~ Nike Thaddeus