“I am convinced that most people do not grow up... We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.”— Maya Angelou, amazon.com
“Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“Commitment matters. And commitment to the marriage doesn’t just mean saying, ‘I’m staying ’til death do us part—even if I have to make everyone miserable in the process.’ It means saying, ‘I commit, every day, to make this marriage the best it can be.’ Commitment is an active, daily decision, not a…”— Sheila Wray Gregoire, amazon.com
“God created genitalia to fit together, and when you're married, you're allowed to connect the puzzle pieces.”— Sheila Wray Gregoire, amazon.com
“Marriages only work well when both sides desist from keeping scorecards of each other’s performance.”— Sheila Wray Gregoire, amazon.com
“I can’t do this, I can’t just be a wife. I don’t understand how anyone does it—there is literally nothing to do but wait. Wait for a man to come home and love you. Either that or look around for something to distract you.”— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com
“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, qotd.org
“For a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me. And now it’s not. Now the most important thing about me is that I’m old.”— Nora Ephron, amazon.com
“SELFLESS LOVE. If you have a special person in your life, but you find yourselves arguing, irritated and/or fighting out of the blue… you both need to try to step back and be selfless and think of the other person... with no ego of your own. No ego. We are ALL dealing with our own tough issues. We m…”— José N. Harris, marianna68.com
“I'm not telling you it's going to be easy, I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.”— Art Williams, amazon.com
“You already know what you’d say during your wedding vows. When it comes to the other person, you can always articulate what makes him/her so amazing and why you’ll be there for them forever.”— Laura Donovan, hellogiggles.com
“When you envision your future, he has a major role in it (and vice versa). The idea of spending the rest of your life with him doesn't scare you. Being by his side is where you feel most comfortable.”— Laura Argintar, elitedaily.com
“You sadly report your best friend’s husband is cheating. Instead of sharing your dismay, he becomes defensive. ‘Well, he hasn’t been happy in that marriage,’ or ‘People have affairs. That’s life.’ Condemning others means condemning himself—and he’s not about to go there.”— Abby Rodman, thoughtcatalog.com
“It's inadvisable to marry someone who was cheating in an affair with you — when you're the spouse, you'll get cheated on. People who feel entitled to sex any way they can get it will always rationalize cheating and just keep doing it”— Tina B. Tessina, sheknows.com
“When a man is trying to win the heart of a woman, he studies her. He learns her likes, dislikes, habits and hobbits. But after he wins her heart and marries her he often stops learning about her. If the amount he studies her before marriage, was equal to a high-school degree. He should continue to l…”— Jennifer Dion, amazon.com
“It may take ten relationships or twenty years before you're even able to identify who Mr. or Ms. Right would be. Trust that the process is the unfolding, that there's no time limit or trial period you have to fit your life into before you expire into a settled forever.”— Brianna Wiest, bustle.com