We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.
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One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in again.Judith Viorst
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Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.
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Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
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Judith Viorst
Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.
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