It devastated their lives and they worked very hard to keep their marriage together. They were both very generous and they loved their children with every fiber of their being.

They were just now getting through that anguish.

Marriage is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important

I'm not the marrying kind -"
St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.

We joke around with our students that ballroom is the most inexpensive form of marriage counseling. We watch couples come in who didn't even know (they had a problem), and in two or three weeks you start to see the language change — playfulness comes back into it.

I’ve won his heart, but it’s like owning a house in which most of the doors are permanently locked. He wants to shield me from all unpleasantness. And it’s not really marriage—not like the marriage you have with Cam—until he’s willing to share the worst of himself as well as the best of himself.