Marriage Myth Quotes

I see an insidious problem in the marketing of weddings as 'the happiest day of your life.' The pressure that is placed upon this event to be the alpha and omega of your entire existence makes it, I think, into a kind of nuptial New Year's Eve, and we all know how that usually turns out.

I know plenty of people my age that will never get married because they genuinely believe the false cultural meme that marriage has sadly become. There's only one problem. It's completely untrue.

I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.

Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.

There were some articles written about our marriage, mythologising it, making it into the greatest love story ever told.

"And they lived happily ever after" is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It's tragic because it's falsehood. It is a myth that has led generations to expect something from marriage that is not possible.

It's a particularly modern myth that married people are best friends. The best-friend concept is a uniquely female phenomena.

The video for 'Whatever' is kind of a documentary in a way. It's showing that love can last. Not just in your early 20s or your late 30s, but in your 50s, 60s and 70s. There's an awful myth out there that when you get married, love and lovemaking fade. It's not true.