Like Mozart's opera, it involves a double love story, in which two happy couples don't necessarily trust each other.

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Though I prefer to be and am at home I know many happy couples who share their lives, have children and both work.

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Many happy couples hold their most valuable assets jointly. (The exception is retirement accounts, which must be individually owned.) What's mine is yours, right?

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Among the posters on offer at Christie's will be "Winter in Davos" (1914) by Burkhard Mangold, depicting happy couples dancing on skates at the Swiss resort's rink.

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But he would be happy for couples to hire the aircraft.

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You'll find twin alarms for keeping couples happy, a front-panel display, iTunes tagging support, jAura speaker technology, an auxiliary line input (3.5-millimeter jack) and twin 4-watt drivers.

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She said that couples who later divorced thought that they were as happy when they first wed as couples who stayed together.

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Deciding who gets fertility treatment is likely to become yet more difficult in the coming years, as specialists find their model of a "happy, stable family" is increasingly challenged by gay couples, and single women.

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My criticism with Michaels article is that he neglects to raise the real key to a successful relationship and that is people who are happy and love themselves outlast relationships where one or both couples are un-satisfied with themselves.

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The most important aspect of the fifty percent divorce rate on our wedding day is our happy belief that we will be among the half of all married couples who will sustain one another, strengthen one another, and, enliven one another until death cleaves us apart.

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