Conjugal Life Quotes

“Tired of his lack of understanding, she asked him for an unusual birthday gift: that for one day he would take care of the domestic chores. He accepted in amusement, and indeed took charge of the house at dawn. He served a splendid breakfast, but he forgot that fried eggs did not agree with her and that she did not drink café con leche. Then he ordered a birthday luncheon for eight guests and gave instructions for tidying the house, and he tried so hard to manage better than she did that before noon he had to capitulate without a trace of embarrassment. From the first moment he realized he did not have the slightest idea where anything was, above all in the kitchen, and the servants let him upset everything to find each item, for they were playing the game too. At ten o’clock no decisions had been made regarding lunch because the housecleaning was not finished yet, the bedroom was not straightened, the bathroom was not scrubbed; he forgot to replace the toilet paper, change the sheets, and send the coachmen for the children, and he confused the servants’ duties: he told the cook to make the beds and set the chambermaids to cooking. At eleven o’clock, when the guests were about to arrive, the chaos in the house was such that Fermina Daza resumed command, laughing out loud, not with the triumphant attitude she would have liked but shaken instead with compassion for the domestic helplessness of her husband. He was bitter and offered the argument he always used: “Things did not go as badly for me as they would for you if you tried to cure the sick.” But it was a useful lesson, and not for him alone. Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Sexual intimacy is not the destination, it is the path - the path that leads to mental union.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

“Sex is not just about going in or letting in, it is really about welcoming your dearly beloved into the deepest regions of your psyche which are inaccessible to anybody else.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

“To a woman sexual intimacy is more a tool to get mentally close to her partner than merely a means to physical pleasure.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

“If the husband is not in a peaceful state of mind and is deprived of conjugal happiness, it would eventually percolate down to everyone else in the family. Hence, if the husband is without bliss, the fate of the wife also remains sunk in gloom.”
― Nihar Satpathy, Monologues of Mahalakshmi

“Marriage is the beginning of an everlasting melody of love.”
― Debasish Mridha

“A woman should avoid having resentment towards the husband, I told her. A sense of contentment is the key to happiness. Traces of discontent eventually lead to rifts in the family.”
― Nihar Satpathy, Monologues of Mahalakshmi

“There are wives who are considered to be the blessing of a home, and then there are those who bring disaster into the household. Further, there are wives who cause poverty and starvation in the family. Some of them even cause cracks in the family, while there is also the kind of wife who brings showers of prosperity.”
― Nihar Satpathy, Monologues of Mahalakshmi

“The honeymoon period takes care of itself but it's for the spouses to nurse their marriage thereafter”
― B.S. Murthy

“ஒரு தலைவனும் தலைவியும் சேர்ந்து வாழ வேண்டிய அக வாழ்க்கை... அந்த வாழ்க்கை கூட, புனிதமான தோழமை என்று சொன்னவர் திருவள்ளுவர்.”
― குன்றக்குடி பொன்னம்பல அடிகளார், நாளும் கற்போம்