Better to marry unhappily 100 times than to live happily forever in sin.
It's like the old thing: The parents stay together for the kids, but the kids know that you don't want to be together. The kids would rather you be happy - and separate - than together and miserable. I don't want my kid to grow up around two parents who just don't work.
I tried to be a good wife, but I was lost in my gilded cage.
Just staying together is not a real virtue, if you're not happy. Or you're being denied. Or one person is being squashed. Or you really don't love each other; you're just there out of habit. That doesn't work, no matter how many years you stay together.
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Honestly speaking, after seeing my parents' marriage, I have lost all faith in marriage.
My father and mother were not that compatible. I don't think they had a good wedding night, and I was the product of that. We weren't close.
I thought divorce was for people that threw plates at each other, and I'd have to be an alcoholic or having affairs. But the truth is, sometimes a very sweet, well-meaning person just doesn't do it for you, and you need to get out of there.
Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.
Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.
Hope died as I was led unto my marriage bed.
About my marriage life, it has been pretty painful, pretty sad. I can't say there was no unpleasantness at all. I can't say it was smooth and happy or anything. There were lot of painful experiences we both went through.
Most of the people I know, their marriages went down the drain, like mine - something I am not proud of.
Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.
I was married to the number one douchebag of all time.
A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.
We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it.
You want a happy romantic relationship? Don’t ruin it by getting married.
But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
I think it's quite common and realistic. There are many stories like this [in Waitress]. [Jenna, my character] marriage looks really horrible up on the screen but I think there are a lot of people in bad relationships who wake up and think to themselves: "Wow, how did I end up here? Why am I still here and so unhappy and not satisfied with my life?"
I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.
Divorce Myths: 1. When love has gone out of a marriage, it is better to get divorced. 2. It is better for the children for the unhappy couple to divorce than to raise their children in the atmosphere of an unhappy marriage. 3. Divorce is the lesser of two evils. 4. You owe it to yourself. 5. Everyone's entitled to one mistake. 6. God led me to this divorce.
He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.
