If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
I believe when there are so many forces pulling our society apart, we need more commitment to marriage, not less.
With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.
I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage.
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.
I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.