If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.
The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
It's a particularly modern myth that married people are best friends. The best-friend concept is a uniquely female phenomena.
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.