“He is no cuckold who has no wife.” –Chaucer, The Miller’s Tale
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Tag: marriage
(speaking to me), “You would not want to be married to me!”
This is the front of my Mac at work. The attached clipping is from a Pearls Before Swine comic that was clipped out and given to me by my wife. This is one of my favorite things that I have received—not because of its intrinsic value—but because of what it represents. At work I am […]
“Wherever bitterness is, there love is wanting. And where love is wanting in the married life, there is hell upon earth.” –Adam Clark in his commentary on Colossians 3:19
“If your wife comes home and the front end of the car is rearranged you have to decide, ‘Do I want a good car or a good marriage–you cannot have both at that point.”
CON-san-GWIN-i-TEE, adj., relating to or denoting people descended from the same ancestor. Consanguineous marriages are those in which the spouses are related to one another by blood, hence the root sanguine.
You can identify all of the people who wish to be in love but currently are not by their ‘I hate Valentine’s Day’ posts on Facebook, the poor blighters. If they were happily single or just ambivalent, they wouldn’t have anything to say. How many posts have you seen from me on the topic of […]
My friend Kaleb, another logophile, coined this phrase. It describes the phenomena when a wife addresses her husband with a sentence beginning with, “We need to…,” and by this statement what she means is, “You need to….”
In a previous post about a dream I had involving life-changing prime numbers, I asked (jokingly) what prime number changed your life. I actually received a reply: “The number 17. First, I met my husband for the first time the day before I turned 17 and second, I was married on the 17th of December.”
Last week when we were at the store picking up a couple of things, a clerk named Rachel had helped us. She is in high school. When Heather went back a couple days ago, Rachel was working again. “Can I ask you a personal question?” she asked Heather as she rung he up. “Suuurrrre,” said […]