When I was a young lady, I never fantasized about getting married.
I've always been very skeptical about marriage, because I only want to do it once; I want to do it the right way.
Better no marriage, than a marriage short of the best.
I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.
Only someone obsessed with sexual fidelity to an unhealthy degree places a higher value on preserving the ideal of monogamous marriage over preserving an actual marriage.
I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.
I wanted a relationship like the one my mother and father had. It wasn't perfect; they had to work on it. But there was an unbelievable mutual respect.
My actual goal when marrying in real life is to live like friends even after marriage.
The Bible stresses that a marriage ideally should be a picture or a reflection of Christ's love for His people.
Newlyweds, they have this ideal, this picture of what marriage is like, something similar of their favorite memories growing up. If only it were that simple.
It is my childhood dream to have a Christian-style wedding, just like the fairy tales.
Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.
