Couple relationships have a unique life of their own. Because navigating couplehood is a complex matter, couples often benefit from the wit and wisdom of those who have successfully and not so successfully gone before them
These quotations are some of the best words of advice and instruction I've found. I use them in my coaching and psychotherapy work with clients who are coupled, wanting to be coupled or who are dissolving their couple bonds. In my experience the sentiments expressed apply equally to all couple relationships. Enjoy these words of wit, wisdom and whimsy regarding the joys, strains, pains and truths about coupling. The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly. Peter De Vries
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. Rita Rudner
Newlyweds become oldyweds, and oldyweds are the reasons that families work. Author Unknown
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.
Simone Signoret
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate,but through being the right mate.
Barnett R. Brickner
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
Doug Larson
Divorce: The past tense of marriage.
Author Unknown
One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
Judith Viorst
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Mignon McLaughlin
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
Robert Anderson
The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through eternity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller
In the opinion of the world, marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the opposite: it begins all.
Anne Sophie Swetchine
One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.
George MacDonald
A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it. Mignon McLaughlin
Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration continues to this day.
Gene Perret
I figure that the degree of difficulty in combining two lives ranks somewhere between rerouting a hurricane and finding a parking place in downtown Manhattan. Claire Cloninger
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
Dr. James C. Dobson
We have the greatest pre-nuptial agreement in the world. It's called love.
Gene Perret
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Marlene Dietrich
Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
Langdon Mitchell
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
George Levinger
That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger.
George Eliot
It's easy to understand love at first sight, but how do we explain love after two people have been looking at each other for years?
Author Unknown
She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.
Tommy Manville
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
Ruth Bell Graham
A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.
Mignon McLaughlin
In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again.... We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
Enid Bagnold
For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
Bill Cosby
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Andre Maurois
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
Jean Kerr
My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God, and I didn't.
Author Unknown
Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.
Mignon McLaughlin
People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images.
The exciting adventure of marriage is finding out who the partner really is.
James L. Framo,
Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
Samuel Lichtenberg
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
H.V. Prochnow
The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous;
the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.
H.L. Mencken
Love is grand; divorce a hundred grand.
Author Unknown
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
From the movie, When Harry Met Sally Lynne Azpeitia, M.A., Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist AAMFT Approved Supervisor
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