People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Most people don't want to get married. Being married, that's a responsibility.
Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.
Surely, marriage is throwing anchor and saying, 'This is where I'm staying. I've made my choice, and this is all I want because I've been on the up and down escalator, through the revolving door, and I want to stand still.' That's what I expected.
Some of us stay married because we're in competition with our divorcing 1960s and 1970s parents, who made such a hash of it. What looks appealing to us now, in an increasingly frenetic, digital world, is the 1950s marriage.
Researchers warn us against walking out on married life without a dang good reason.
Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.
I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.
Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who's miserable in it - men and women alike - and anyone who's suffered through difficult periods in marriage dreams of escape from it.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.