Friendly Talks about Marriage (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. WHAT MAT INJURE OE DESTROY THE HAPPINESS OF MARRIED LIFE? The purpose of the present Talk is to call attention to some of the influences which may destroy the happiness of married people. The novelist usually leaves the happy couple at the church doors when the wedding service is ended. He does not tell us what their after life became, whether happy or miserable. He fails to say whether or not the romance continued? whether the hero remained a hero, and whether the heroine ruled over him as the peerless queen of his life. This very silence of the novelists has created the impression in many minds that all romance ends when the parties have been married, that thenceforth their life may be hum- drum or wearisome, anything but romantic. The impression, wittingly or unwittingly created, is that it is best to say as little as possible about their after lives, for the romance having speedily Does passed away, they must settle down into bea a commonplace and colorless existence, te the one bright spot having been those few months before they were married. We have a few novels in which there have been drawn some very charming pictures of home life, and the writers have shown how this romantic attachment which sprang up between two young persons continued down throughout their lives. Usually, however, as has been said, the story ends with marriage, and you are left in doubt as whether or not their love for each other bore the test. Although it may sound somewhat strangely to some, it is yet true that marriage is the test of affection. Many a once seemingly devoted couple are foundto grow widely apart after they are married, and the spectacle of homes broken up, or made increasingly unhappy, is not an uncommon one. It is pertinent then to find out if we can why the...