But few who have experienced marriage can dispute the fact that the focus of interpersonal relationships is different in marriage than in a pre-marital situation.

Yet many psychologists and marriage counselors agree that domination of the sex relationship by one partner or the other can be unhealthy and even dangerous.

It can, in fact, wreck a marriage.

If through lack of issue, marriage or both, eventually only one person represents the claims of all the sisters, he or she can claim the dignity as a matter of right, and the abeyance is said to be terminated.

Lerner wrote in his autobiography ( as quoted by The New York Times ): " All I can say is that if I had no flair for marriage, I also had no flair for bachelorhood.

The Catholic Church views that Christ himself established the sacrament of marriage at the wedding feast of Cana ; therefore, since it is a divine institution, neither the Church nor state can alter the basic meaning and structure of marriage.

The divergent opinions fall into two main groups: Complementarians ( who call for husband-headship and wife-submission ) and Christian Egalitarians ( who believe in full partnership equality in which couples can discover and negotiate roles and responsibilities in marriage ).

The rabbis recognize a positive value to the yetzer hara: one tradition identifies it with the observation on the last day of creation that God's accomplishment was " very good " ( God's work on the preceding days was just described as " good ") and explain that without the yetzer ha ' ra there would be no marriage, children, commerce or other fruits of human labor ; the implication is that yetzer ha ' tov and yetzer ha ' ra are best understood not as moral categories of good and evil but as selfless versus selfish orientations, either of which used rightly can serve God's will.

* stock devices ( a comedy ends with a marriage, but a cowboy film can end with the hero riding off into the sunset )

He records some twenty-one cases, the most famous of them being a problem posed to the women about whether or not true love can exist in marriage.

It can be viewed as the marriage between the director's early experiences with expressionist techniques in Germany as well as the spartan style already visible in his late American work.

A honeymoon can also be the first moments a newly-wed couple spend together, or the first holiday they spend together to celebrate their marriage.

For example, the relationships can be ones of marriage, intimate partners, casual sex partners or anonymous.

These laws can also extend to marriage between subject individuals.

: However we may understand homosexuality, whether as an illness, as a genetically based dysfunction or as a sexual preference and lifestyle-we cannot accommodate the relationship of two homosexuals as a " marriage " within the context of Judaism, for none of the elements of qiddushin ( sanctification ) normally associated with marriage can be invoked for this relationship.

In 1998, an ad hoc CCAR committee on Human Sexuality issued its majority report ( 11 to 1, 1 abstention ) which stated that the holiness within a Jewish marriage " may be present in committed same gender relationships between two Jews and that these relationships can serve as the foundation of stable Jewish families, thus adding strength to the Jewish community.

If a marriage includes multiple husbands and wives, it can be called group marriage.

Like monogamy, the term is often used in a de facto sense, applying regardless of whether the relationships are recognized by the state ( see marriage for a discussion on the extent to which states can and do recognize potentially and actually polygamous forms as valid ).

In the Church — the City of God — marriage is a sacrament and may not and cannot be dissolved as long as the spouses live: But a marriage once for all entered upon in the City of our God, where, even from the first union of the two, the man and the woman, marriage bears a certain sacramental character, can in no way be dissolved but by the death of one of them ..

The Morrises ' initial happiness together did not survive the first ten years of their marriage, but divorce was unthinkable, and they remained together until Morris ' death.

Letters survive in which Pliny records this latter marriage taking place, as well as his attachment to Calpurnia and his sadness when she miscarries their child.

This marriage did not survive his drinking and abuse.

Jeanne would have been the maternal aunt of Boniface's last wife ; apparently, the marriage was childless or, if they had children, none survive to adulthood.

Hence, few historical examples of marriage licenses, in England and Wales, survive.

His wife, the former Paige Lucas, and two adult sons from a previous marriage, Michael and Mathieson, survive him.

Their marriage did not survive much longer, and they soon divorced.

Few of Sophia's letters from her courtship and early marriage survive.

However, the Liberals went on to survive the confidence votes and eventually got the same-sex marriage bill passed in the summer session of parliament.

That view of marriage ... cannot survive even the lowest level of scrutiny a judge can bring to bear on a statute.

The Deans had privately believed that Xavin would die in the war, and wouldn't expect him to survive to come and collect the marriage agreement.

In October 2008, Perkins called the passage of California Proposition 8 ( which prohibited same sex marriage in the state ) " more important than the presidential election ", adding that the United States has survived despite picking bad presidents in the past but " we will not survive if we lose the institution of marriage.

The young couple struggled to survive during the depression, but ultimately had a long, happy, successful marriage.

The marriage of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon and the conquest of the last Muslim kingdom of Granada in 1492 tied Catalonia politically to the fate of the new Spanish kingdom, while a regional culture continued to survive and thrive.

Despite their similar interests the marriage could not survive and they divorced in 1952.

Although this does not specifically cite the marriage of George Hayward Lindsay to Lady Mary Catherine Gore, George Lindsay almost certainly came into the lands at Glasnevin as a result of his marriage.

After marriage, Dixit had relocated to Denver, US for almost a decade.

This is attributed to extreme delays in marriage ( almost unparalleled in the region, with the exception of developed countries ), the prevalence of illegal abortions, and the high proportion of single, unmarried women of reproductive age ( with 25. 9 % of women aged 30 – 34 and 33. 1 % of men and women aged 25 – 34 single ).

The average age of marriage in Burma is 27. 5 for men, 26. 4 for women, almost unparalleled in the region, with the exception of developed countries like Singapore.

In its new constitutions, Eastern Patriarchs were made almost independent from Rome ( CIC Orientalis, 1957 ) Eastern marriage law ( CIC Orientalis, 1949 ), civil law ( CIC Orientalis, 1950 ), laws governing religious associations ( CIC Orientalis, 1952 ) property law ( CIC Orientalis, 1952 ) and other laws.

While she beats almost all the men in the foot race, she ties Young John, who is then awarded her hand in marriage by the King ( Contrary to the original story in which he cheated in the race by winning a goddess ' favor ).

After almost seven years of childless union, the Duke of Wroclaw obtain the annulment of his marriage under the grounds of sterility, although this fact is disputed by modern historians.

The novel opens with the marriage of Lucy Graham, a beautiful, doll-like blonde who enchants almost all who meet her, to Sir Michael Audley, an old, rich, and kind widower, in June 1857.

He disdained his son ’ s effeminacy and his mother Edwina, locked in an unhappy marriage, focused her overbearing attention almost entirely on Tom.

The marriage, however, was doomed to failure almost from the beginning.

Martial describes Claudia's marriage to a man named Pudens, almost certainly Aulus Pudens, an Umbrian centurion and friend of the poet who appears regularly in his Epigrams.

The marriage, unlike that of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, was consummated almost immediately.

In the episode " Grade School Confidential ", she develops a secret romance with Skinner, a relationship that almost leads to marriage.

As Janet Adelman observes, “ almost all the central elements in Antony and Cleopatra are to be found in the Aeneid: the opposing values of Rome and a foreign passion ; the political necessity of a passionless Roman marriage ; the concept of an afterlife in which the passionate lovers meet .” However, as Heather James argues, Shakespeare ’ s allusions to Virgil ’ s Dido and Aeneas are far from slavish imitations.

Alfonso almost had their marriage annulled, but they went on to have eleven children:

Mary had been unhappy with her marriage of state to Louis, as at this time she was almost certainly already in love with Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk.

After attempting to have the marriage cancelled, Queen Juliana acquiesced and the marriage took place under a continued storm of protest and an almost certain attitude pervaded the country that Princess Beatrix might be the last member of the House of Orange to ever reign in the Netherlands.

Although Plutarch claims that Marius ' father was a laborer, this is almost certainly false since Marius had connections with the nobility in Rome, he ran for local office in Arpinum, and he had marriage relations with the local nobility in Arpinum, which all combine to indicate that he was born into a locally important family of equestrian status.

After the demise of Solid Rock, and his September 1980 divorce from his first wife, Pamela, after almost nine years of marriage, Norman moved to England, where he was based until 1985.

Geoffrey and Matilda's marriage was not an easy one ; it had almost collapsed altogether in 1130.

Scottish law allowed for " irregular marriages ", meaning that if a declaration was made before two witnesses, almost anybody had the authority to conduct the marriage ceremony.

He had proposed after an almost momentary acquaintance, allegedly in very abrupt and peculiar terms ; it seems to have been a successful marriage.