A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
The first duty of love is to listen.
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
Let there be spaces in your togetherness
We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness'.
Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make on your wedding day, and over and over again and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband.
I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person. But I do know that if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. It is far more important to BE the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person.
Real giving is when we give to our spouses what's important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
The best proof of love is trust.
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
To solve a marriage problem, you have to talk with each other about it, choosing wisely the time and place. But when accusations and lengthy speeches of defense fill the dialogue, the partners are not talking to each other but past each other. Take care to listen more than you speak. If you still can't agree on a solution, consider asking a third party, without a vested interest, to mediate.
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