The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
I don't want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair - some of our neighbours' marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine; nevertheless, in the workaday world, it is wedlock that is most likely to offer the occasion for life-threatening disappointment.
You don't build a bond without being present.
Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
I'm not doing Bond.
I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.