When the boy is laughingly warned against "the girl with a family," and the girl is reminded that this or that jolly fellow "has a dragon of a mother," the evil seed is sown.

From that time until the pair are forever united at the altar, it grows, and with marriage it begins to bring forth the unpeaceable fruits of endless dissensions.

I sometimes wonder if the new life could be begun with a predisposition towards amity, what the result would be.
There is fault on both sides from the beginning.

It is an accepted proverb that no house is large enough to hold two families, and certainly no family is large enough to contain two factions.

As soon as the son of the household marries, an antagonistic element is introduced.