commitment

Darling, I would follow you through the blackest midnight__ust not without my trousers!

Real love, true love is not like the shooting star that makes you go, "ooh, aah". Real, true love is like the constancy of the sun that comes up slowly every morning - sometimes too hot; sometimes hidden behind the clouds, but always there. Therefore, often take for granted.

Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without the emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both.

The most crucial thing to know about true love is that, it is not something you can find, rather you need to build it with the person in whose eyes you see your soul.

If a car can represent something, this one represents contradiction. For most of his life, my dad has been able to have any woman he wants. In response, he__ gone through as many as possible, betraying each for someone younger and more absurd. Conversely, for most of his life he__ been able to have any car he wants, too. In response, he__ remained married to this, a 1982 Porsche with a tricky clutch.

I smiled ruefully to myself, knowing I had already experienced a far greater and deeper union with this man than that which propriety was so busy guarding against. I had seen and accepted our fate here, tonight, on the crest of this ancient hill, and all other ceremonies would be just that: rituals to please the people and make public the commitment that had been made in the privacy of my own heart.

Too many believe that love is a condition, a feeling that involves 100 percent of the heart, something that happens to you. They disassociate love from the mind and, therefore, from agency. In commanding us to love, the Lord refers to something much deeper than romance _ a love that is the most profound form of loyalty. He is teaching us that love is something more than feelings of the heart; it is also a covenant we keep with soul and mind.

The emotional place where a marriage begins is not nearly as important as the emotional place where a marriage finds itself toward the end, after many years of partnership.

Commitment is Circumstances

Courtship is romantic. Marriage ... is an act of will," said Pippa, taking a sip of water. "I mean, I adore Herb. But the marriage functions because we will it to. If you leave love to hold everything together, you can forget it.

In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives on earth as it is in heaven. "But if they cannot contain " Paul finally conceded then "let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn." Which is perhaps the most begrudging endorsement of matrimony in human history.

Still it is true that many same-sex couples want nothing more than to join society as fully integrated socially responsible family-centered taxpaying Little League-coaching nation-serving respectably married citizens. So why not welcome them in Why not recruit them by the vanload to sweep in on heroic wings and save the flagging and battered old institution of matrimony from a bunch of apathetic ne'er-do-well heterosexual deadbeats like me

I knew that most people would consider us too young to talk about lifelong commitments or marriage, but I couldn__ imagine taking her to bed without that promise. Even if it meant never being with her, I didn__ want to have one desperate, hurried, hidden night. I wanted to put a ring on her finger. I wanted a future__r nothing. I knew, in her heart, that she would want that, too

Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody__o utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air?

Jealousy from a love affair is something even God can admit.

Marriage is nothing but a commitment to care and share.

It is not the lack of commitment that destroys marriages, it is the lack of purpose.

You__e worth ever bead of sweat and every groan of frustration. You__e worth the work, you__e worth the wait, you__e worth everything I have to give you._ I moved closer, so our foreheads were pressed together, our eyes aligned. __o make me work for it. Make me work hard for it. I will. You won__ hear one complaint from me working myself to the bone for you. Not one.