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“The upshot is, if we want a happy love affair, we need to put some hours into having some romance, too. The hour or two we set aside for sensual connection with the Naked Date needs that support to help keep our arousal accessible. That means we want to plan for a bit of romance in our marriage, as well planning for our sexual time, and adapt ourselves to its nature.”

“Family life relies upon the glue between a wife and husband (or wife and wife, husband and husband in same-sex marriages.) When we start letting that glue get dry and crusty, it starts to chip away at the very foundation we’re counting on for our family life. Intimacy, plain and simple, is that glue. Going for months at a time without connecting with our partner sensually will, over time, take chunks out of the very bedrock we’re counting on to keep our family intact. Our kids rely on us to keep our love and family together, so we have to have an ethic of doing just that.”

“Our partnership is the primary bond. Not our kids. And as compelling as it is to turn our full attention to our new baby, our toddler, our young kids or our teens, if we leave our partner out in the cold, we will chip away at the very core of what holds our loving family together. We will, without doubt, put our family at risk. We have to find balance. Though it’s not always easy, with a little practice and a few simple shortcuts applied, we can realistically do it. Love is an active verb.”

“The Naked Date is not a time to vent about your controlling boss or discuss your child’s learning disability; it’s not the time to banter about the repairs going on in the kitchen or whether you should put your house on the market. In fact, it’s not a talking event at all. In its purest form, the Naked Date is a time to get sensual, get skin-to-skin, and be close—a time set aside for love, sex, and intimate sensuality. Does it have to be sexual every time? No. But it does need to be close. (...) When you do this week after week, your partner will begin to feel the respect you offer him or her by your willingness to show up. He or she will know that you value your intimate time together, and that you’re willing to set aside your worries and cares and then connect. That’s a huge thing all by itself.”

“There are three aspects of a relationship that need to be attended to: my being and needs, my spouse’s needs, and the marriage’s needs. The marriage is an entity all by itself, and just like a child or a creative project, we have to feed it and nurture it. So sometimes we have to show up for it when we don’t initially feel like it.”

“We want the mastery of being able to lead our husband or wife into love. To stop thinking of passion as a hormonal experience for twenty-three-year-olds, and start living it for what it is: an adult, time-bound, mastery-seeking, exquisitely experiential ability to make our partner’s heart and senses go from zero to one hundred, over an adult timeline, just because we led him or her there. Just because we can. That’s what romance is all about. Guiding and awakening, with the expertise of all of our sensual art forms, arousing our lover to love.”

“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”

“But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

“Love one another, but make not a bond of love.”

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”

“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.”

“The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.”

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”

“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”

“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”

“Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.”

“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.”

“The first duty of love is to listen.”

“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.”

“Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.”

“Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.”

“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.”

“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”

“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.”

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness”

“A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.”

“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.”