Pete didn't do personal problems: he had what by Mike's envious standards looked like an ideal marriage.
Her ideal marriage was under a certain amount of strain because she had not conceived despite her husband's best efforts.
Temple Court would seem an ideal marriage of her family's business and her own.
She could be right, I'd thought privately, having seen other 'ideal' marriages disintegrate.
It is a concept that, like the ideal marriage, means different things to different people and has rarely survived the test of real life.
'An ideal marriage,' he replied, his tone saying there was no such thing.
It was not only a happy and ideal marriage but he was also lucky in having a better half like her.
It could be all in her head, a way to justify a less than ideal marriage.
My precious child, we did not have an ideal marriage, but we both loved you.
And you obviously do not know the inside story if you think they have the "ideal marriage".