Judith Viorst

Marriage can be the most __________ of human relationships.

In a grown-up marriage, we understand that we aren't each other's _______, parent, of home-improvement project.

In a grown-up marriage we gradually acquire rueful tolerance of each other's ____________.

In a grown-up marriage we recognize we don't always have to ____________.

In a grown-up marriage we learn to ____________.

For most womenof my generation, earning a living was something a woman aspired to ____________.

We married because, for a woman, there was no ____________.

In the late 50s, men were brought up in a culture that equated becoming a man with ____________.

There were plenty of reasons ____________ back in my day.

Now the state of ____________ isn't the disaster it used to be.

Divorce occurs more often in____________.

Those now considering marriage seem a lot more ____________ than my generation was.

The women of my generation were looking for ____________ companions.

____________ required premarital and predivorce counseling.

The point of covenant marriage is to make ____________ much harder.

People who choose to live together are ____________ than those who don't.

Marriage remains a ____________ for most men and women.

Compared to cohabitating couples, married couples have better sex, ____________, longer lives, shorter ____________, more money, and less ____________.

____________ may be more life-threatening than heart disaese or cancer.

In the heat of love, youngsters may not notice they have ____________ on important matters, may not worry if their lover will be a good ____________, or ____________ down the road.

We marry ____________ for the discontents and disappointments.

We get to know each other's ____________ in dozens of daily living-together matters,

How infuriating to live with a spouse who does things ____________.

Marriage presents us with a cold, clear view of our spouse's ____________.

Bait and switch: displaying before marriage certain ____________ qualities that turn into someting quite different afterwards.

When men ____________ they know how to hide their less desirable traits.

Most people hoping to beguile a future mate don't rush to reveal the ____________ about themselves.

The expectations we bring into marriage can set us up for ____________.

One of the main ways we (husband and wife) can be divided is by the ____________.

In the cold light of marrage, what looked like ____________ may start to look like incompatible.

We ask more of marriage than marriage can ____________.

We idealize the ____________.

Love does not preclude ____________.

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