Friends Are People Who Help You Be

Marriage Is Supposed To Do Everything, Like Duz, Which Is More Than Half Its Problem. It Is Said To Save Us, Define Us, Give Us Purpose, Keep Us From Loneliness, And Incidentally Balance Our Diet And Wash Our Socks, And When It Doesn't, We Get Divorced.

One Can Never Change The Past, Only The Hold It Has On You.

Perhaps The Old View Of 'me Breadwinner, You Hausfrau' Worked For Our Grandparents, When People Obligingly Popped Off Before Boring Each Other To Death, But It Won't Work Any Longer Because We Are Living Too Long And Divorce Is Needed Today To Do What Death Acomplished More Economically Before.

No Marriage Is One Person's Failure Any More Than It's One Person's Success, So It Works Best To See A Marriage That Has Ended Simply As Something That Didn't Work Out.

I'm Not Sure There Can Be Loving Without Commitment, Although Commitment Takes All Kinds Of Forms, And There Can Be Commitment For The Moment As Well As Commitment For All Time. The Kind That Is Essential For Loving Marriages - And Love Affairs, As Well - Is A Commitment To Preserving The Essential Quality Of Your Partner's Soul, Adding To Them As A Person Rather Than Taking Away.