wedded bliss

He agreed to marry me and live together for the required two years of wedded bliss.

Its basic three-act structure of childhood, Army service and wedded bliss is as subdivided as a California lot into shorter episodes and paragraphs, many only one sentence long.

But I’d be just as excited if the happy couple had waited for the new year, as their one full day of wedded bliss this year means they face a full year’s worth of marriage penalty on their taxes.

Choosing work over wedded bliss, Fierstein comes to accept that he’s not the marrying kind: “My personality is simply too addictive. I don’t love, I obsess. I don’t share, I possess. I don’t partner, I control.”

So instead what we have now is a marriage of inconvenience - and it's fair to say that since then, the two haven't exactly walked hand in hand into the sunset to enjoy a life of wedded bliss.