Look at all the marriages that have been wonderfully successful where fellows finished their army service and came home to go to college on G.I. bills and their wives worked.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Anybody who was in the military or a military family has a certain sensitivity to the separation. Everyone knows military wives have the hardest jobs. I was born into one. When I think back to those days, I didn't appreciate it then.
The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.
It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.
For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.
Getting married has certainly made a massive difference to my own life. So I am committed to giving support for family finances and having the right policies for work-life balance that make it easier for couples to have a rich family life.
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.