Definition of Marriage

Hi guys,
Could you beleive that January is over!!!. Time really flies.
We had a deep freeze last week in Toronto,Ontario with
temperature dipping to -28 degrees C with windchill factor in.
So long,take care & best wishes to the family.
Willy.(1971)

From the Bohemian Dictionary.......

MARRIAGE Definition :

the social institution under which a man and woman (in love) establish their decision to live as husband and wife by legal commitments, religious ceremonies, etc., and live happily ever after, or...

Facts or fictions, you make the call:


1. Marriages are made in heaven. But so again, are thunder and lightning.

2. After marriage, husband and wife becomes two sides of a coin...they can't face each other, but, they still stay together.

3. Married life is very frustrating. In the first year of marriage, the man speaks and the woman listens.
In the second year, the woman speaks and the man listens.
In the third year, they both speak and the neighbors listen.

4. When a man opens the door of his car for his wife, you can be sure of one thing:

either the car is new, or the wife is.

5. Marriage is when a man and woman become as one. The trouble starts when they try to decide which one.

6. Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something she says. After marriage, he will fall asleep before she finishes talking.

7. Every man wants a wife who is beautiful, understanding, economical, and a good cook. But the law allows only one wife.

8. They say when a man holds a woman's hand before marriage, that is LOVE. After marriage, that is SELF DEFENSE.

9. A wife becomes a "SEX OBJECT" when every time the husband asks for sex,
she objects.

10. Marriage is the only war where you get to sleep with the enemy.

11. There are two four-letter words that are offensive to men in marriage –
"don't" and "stop", unless, they are used together.

12. Marriage is an institution where the man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Master's Degree..

13. In marriage, a man can have words with his wife, but, a woman can have paragraphs with her husband..

14. Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind.

15. There are 3 stages of SEX in a married life: Tri-weekly, try weekly and try weakly.

16. LOVE is a long sweet dream; MARRIAGE is the alarm clock.

17. When a newly married man looks happy, we know why. But, when a 10-year married man looks happy, we wonder why.

18. Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence .... a LIFE SENTENCE.

It is good to read the above for a good laugh.
But is marriage that bad?
Marriage has survived the ages.
The western countries began feeling marriage was useless as because of intolerance from both sides, marriage ended in messy divorces where the couple fought over the assets. The situation so came to pass that even before a marriage took place, the divorce was planned as to how the spoils would be shared.
This is not marriage.
Marriage can be successful only if there is understanding and tolerance from both parties.
The western couples who just started living together without marriage have now come round to accepting the sanctity of marriage once again and our opting for it.
We Indians like to ape the west.
Our educated, enlghtened have now started aping the west by living together before marriage.
We Indians cannot follow the west's education, their systems, their honesty but we can inculcate their vices.