Lesson Types of Families 1

Lesson 4. Marriage and Divorce
Write your feelings (what scenes related to weddings you imagined) after listening to the two different music in the table.

“Wedding march” (Mendelssohn)	“To’ylar muborak” (Ziyoda)

Activity 2, handout 2

“Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without” (James C. Dobson)



“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person” (Mignon McLaughlin)


Comment on these quotes about marriage. Do you agree with any of them? Do you disagree with any of them?

“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband” (Michel de Montaigne)



“If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books” (Alan King)

“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love” (Michel de Montaigne)



“How can a woman be expected to be happy with someone who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being” (Oscar Wilde)




“Love in marriage should be accomplish- ment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end” (Alphone Karr)



“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave” (Martin King)





“Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love” (Ellen Key)



“When you have a baby, love is automatic; when you get married, love is earned” (Marie Osmond)

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  Do you know any well-known sayings about marriage in your language? Introduce these sayings first in your native language then provide an equivalent in English.
  

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  Compare sayings in your culture with sayings of other cultures.