A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
A lot of married people certainly have wonderful relationships with their dogs, but when you're single and your dog is the only other living thing in your house, it's a really special relationship which I wanted CATHY to have.
Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.
It's a particularly modern myth that married people are best friends. The best-friend concept is a uniquely female phenomena.
Even married people have differences of opinion, I'm told.
We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
For a while, I thought the great disappointment of my life was that I don't have a family of my own. Then it dawned on me: That's not what I think; that's what married people think.
Perhaps the single most robust fact across many surveys is that married people are happier than anyone else.
Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
When you admit that you are married, people try to get skeletons out of your closet. They dig into your personal lives and link you with strangers, which could be detrimental. They also want to know details about your marriage, children, and so on. I wanted to keep it private because I only want my work to speak.
