The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.
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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
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Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
And behind every man who's a failure there's a woman, too!
And behind every man who's a failure there's a woman, too!
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There must be some reason why a man must be convinced, while a woman must be persuaded.
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Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too.
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