Was she, deep down inside, determined to avoid the married state herself?

To wait and not see meant continuation of the married state.

A decision is finally rendered in favour of the married state.

Some gentlemen do not have an inclination for the married state, she said.

She then reviews her own strange encounter with the married state.

"Permit me if I speak a few words in favor of married state.

It was highly prized by the women as the symbol of their married state.

Of course I chose to avoid the married state.

Indeed, she speaks of the married state in the most-abhorrent-terms possible.

She even enjoyed some of the company, and she certainly thought the married state was for the best.

Many divorced people will overcommit because they are more used to the married state.

Don't know what the married state's like, these girls don't.

He had respect for the married state, and thought only of some pretty marriageable girls in Indianapolis.

Other Church Fathers were more negative about the married state.

Our New Testament is rather silent on the married state.

He forgot the need of circumspectness which his married state enforced.

For a young woman to see ripe ones, foretells her happiness in the married state.

It is the symbol of the married state.

That virginity is better than the married state.

The very principle is contrary to nature and contrary to the married state."

But in considering the conditions of her daughter's married state, she rejected firmly all flattering illusions.

Again, a first wife can, on entering into the married state, make a bargain that her husband shall marry no other wife.

That is one of the small difficulties of the married state, my dear, as you will discover."

Successful in her professional life, Vera struggles personal as she's having an affair with the married State's attorney.

In the marriage book, she wrote some important advice for Anna Marie on her upcoming married state.