Same-sex marriage is not the future.

When a marriage culture fails sexual desire no longer unites instead it fragments.

I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.

If it's not working before you get married marriage isn't going to fix it.

I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention.

But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.

If I felt in the event of a royal wedding inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't I'd ignore it.

There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.

I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part these communications took place before my marriage though some have sadly took place after. To be clear I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time.

Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.