Failure is part of being human, and it is definitely part of being married.
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Ada Calhoun
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...even good marriages sometimes involve flinging a remote control at the wall.

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People who don't marry miss both the pelting hardships of marriage and its warm rewards.

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Forsaking all others means going deep with one person -- exhaustingly deep.

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Wherever you go, there you are. You would just have different problems. Are the problems you have now so bad that any other problems would be better?

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The boring parts don't last forever. In retrospect, they aren't even boring.

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The romantic fairy tales we grew up with -- where marriage is the happy ending rather than the opening scene -- are not useful for grown-ups.

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...that's part of what marriage means: sometimes hating this other person but staying together because you promised you would.

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...there is so much beauty in the trying, and in the failing, and in the trying again.

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I want to say that at various points in your marriage, may it last forever, you will look at this person and feel only rage.

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(Personally, I have avoided many fights by going to bed angry and waking up to realize that I'd just been tired.)

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Dating is poetry. Marriage is a novel. There are times, maybe years, that are all exposition.

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