Best Spouses Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“The most important quality in the man you decide to marry should be the ability to make you laugh. Beauty fades, careers end, money comes and goes, religions change, children grow up and move away, spouses get sick, struggles happen, family members die, senility sets in when your older, but the ability to make you giggle every day is the most precious gift God can give you to get through all of it.”

Source: 300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask Before Marriage

“One couple (they were college graduates) held long adult conversations with me in the big kitchen downstairs, until the husband went off to war. Then the wife who had been so charming and ready to smile changed into a silent shadow that played infrequently along the walls.”

War Loss Grief Worry Soldiers Spouses

Book:I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Were all men separated from their children and wives by an invisible ribbon of cluelessness?”

Men Children Understanding Women Families Spouses Cluelessness

Book:Lake Success

Source: Lake Success

“Some people would not have remained with their partners, if the unfortunate things that have happened to them had happened to their partners, or if the fortunate things that have happened to their partners had happened to them.”

“Most people who are would each not be in love with their partner, if they did not have the kind of genitals they have.”

“If you truly loved someone you won't become their enemy. You will become their guardian angel.”

“Cheating is an innate evolutionarily programmed desire, especially in men, but it is not a desire that cannot be controlled.”

Source: Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“Do not seek for the best partner, but seek for the person who makes you a better version of yourself.”

Source: Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“Marriage is not a competition. Marriage is completion of two souls.”

Source: Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“When you choose to forgive the same people over and over again you do so because you don't want to believe your time loving them was wasted. Bad relationships over time can become investments, that are hard to let go of. The key to freedom is to realize that love is never wasted. The only thing wasted in life is the time you spend focusing on an unhappy situation that will never change to fit your needs, and not realizing the true investment of time and love are the lessons God wanted you to learn.”

“Empowered Women 101: If they made you an option you will always be an option vs. the person they really wanted. Don't ever settle for someone that makes you go through hell only to stay with you because they don't have the confidence to go get what they really want. Fear will always follow your rules when they know they don't have options that make them stay comfortable. You won't grow real love in this type of a relationship. You will water weeds and call it a garden.”

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Author:Shannon L. Alder

“Simply put, she was the one who had to put up with me. That she did so with love and patience and encouragement instead of strangling me, throwing my remains into a wood chipper, and then pretending she had never been married to me at all is a testament to the fact that she is, in fact, the single best person I know.”

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Book:Lock In

Source: Lock In

“Frances, sitting with hands folded and face blank, recollecting not in tranquility but in ripe howling grief her husband Steven dead now eight months two weeks one day.”

Death Loss Grief Mourning Spouses Death Of A Spouse

Book:Perfect Happiness

Source: Perfect Happiness

“There are many types of marriage relationships and all of them can work, but none is sadder than the one that doesn't represent peace in your heart.”

“Some people will hate you for not loving them.”

“If you have to make a daily choice to be in a relationship then you are married to the past, not the person.”

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Author:Shannon L. Alder

“a single outburst does not produce a difficult relational environment. It is only when a parent [or anyone] repeatedly and regularly uses anger to close conversations, in the broadest sense of 'conversation,' that a dilemma is framed. When a parent [or partner] uses anger or the threat of anger to dominate the emotional atmosphere, then even potentially good conversations with them lose spontaneity, openness and honesty.”

Relationships Abuse Anger Parents Domination Emotional Abuse Attack Spouses

Book:Difficult Mothers: Understanding and Overcoming Their Power

Source: Difficult Mothers: Understanding and Overcoming Their Power

“WIDOW. The word consumes itself, said Sylvia Plath, who consumed herself.”

Death Loss Grief Mourning Widows Spouses

Book:Fates and Furies

Source: Fates and Furies

“The fact that you do not trust your spouse or lover doesn’t necessarily mean that they are cheating on you; and the fact that you do doesn’t necessarily mean that they aren’t.”

“The world is full of widows--several among my closer friends. We have each known that grim rite of passage, have engaged with grief and loss, and have not exactly emerged but found a way of living after and beyond. It is an entirely changed life, for anyone who has been in a long marriage--forty-one years, for me: alone in bed, alone most of the time, without that presence towards which you turned for advice, reassurance, with whom you shared the good news and the bad. Every decision now taken alone; no one to defuse anxieties. And a thoroughly commonplace experience--everywhere, always--so get on with it and don't behave as though you are uniquely afflicted. I didn't tell myself that at the time, and I doubt if it would have helped if I had, but it is what I have come--not so much to feel as to understand.”

Life Loss Grief Marriage Mourning Widows Self Pity Spouses Loss Of A Spouse

Book:Ammonites And Leaping Fish: A Life In Time

Source: Ammonites And Leaping Fish: A Life In Time

“He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of prisoners on the chain gang.”

Fighting Relationships Marriage Unhappiness Constraints Spouses

Book:If the River Was Whiskey

Source: If the River Was Whiskey

“My husband is nervous about a lot of things down here, like the monstrous size of the fire ants and the quality of the gasoline, because half the time the gas stations are out, the nozzles bundled up in black garbage bags, or the credit card readers don't work or the attendant is a shirtless man with a hip flask tucked into the waistband of his shorts. I keep trying to explain that this is a place with its own laws.”

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Book:State of Paradise

Source: State of Paradise

“His love for me seemed to overflow my limits by its flood of wealth and service. But my necessity was more for giving than foe receiving; for love is a vagabond, who can make his flowers bloom in the wayside dust, better than in the crystal jars kept in the drawing-room.”

Love Relationships Marriage Metaphor Flowers Spouses Vagabond

Book:The Home and the World

Source: The Home and the World

“(Nor was Shelley’s dad of any interest to Mira as an adversary. He was a mortgage broker with an irritable disposition who was always, in the family parlance, ‘in a rage’--an infirmity openly encouraged, as Mira pointed out, by his wife, who indeed devoted an unusual proportion of her daily conversation to reminding her husband of the many kinds of people in the world whom he disliked. That this list, which included vegans, slow walkers, loudmouths, ostentatious breast-feeders, people of indeterminate gender, buskers, bad drivers, and the unwashed, covered in one way or another the entire membership of Birnam Wood, Mira did not appear to find insulting. She saw Shelley’s father as a creature of his wife’s devising, not an autonomous adult, but a hapless pawn designed by Mrs Noakes for the solitary purpose of throwing her own, more vivid personality into greater relief--a plainly narcissistic exercise of which she, Mira, could not remotely see the appeal.)”

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Book:Birnam Wood

Source: Birnam Wood

“How your wife will love this tale." "What do you know of love anyone had for anyone?”

Love Understanding Relationships Spouses Wives

Book:Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Source: Black Leopard, Red Wolf

“In frustration she sometimes asked him what he would do if she died first, to which he smugly replied, "You won't," as if it were a joke instead of her worst fear.”

Death Relationships Loss Widows Spouses Marriages Widowhood Widowers

Book:Evensong

Source: Evensong

“Some people each left their spouse or lover because he or she was no longer the primary source of their happiness; some, because their spouse or lover was, at that time, the primary source of their unhappiness.”

“The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily mean that he or she does not love you. And the fact that you are the only person who someone is sleeping with does not necessarily mean that he or she loves you.”

“When you love someone, you end up caring about each and every person they love. When you hate someone, you end up caring about every single person who hates them.”

“The whole world seems tilted, my inner ear displaced by a hole where my spouse used to be.”

Marriage Husband Divorce Cheating Infidelity Seperation Spouses

Book:Split: A Memoir of Divorce

Source: Split: A Memoir of Divorce

“The number of chances you give someone doesn't tell the world how loving you are without telling them how desperate you are to believe they care as much as you. True love resides in the first chance, stupidity in the second, opportunists in the third and scoundrels in the fourth.”

“There is a husband who requires mileage receipts, another who wants sex at three a.m. One who forbids short haircuts, another who refuses to feed the pets. I would never put up with that, all the other wives think. Never. But my agent has a theory. She says every marriage is jerry-rigged. Even the ones that look reasonable from the outside are held together with chewing gum and wire and string.”

Marriage Trust Spouses

Book:Dept. of Speculation

Source: Dept. of Speculation

“Buth marriages were mysterious and private things, even to the people in the marriages themselves. One spouse's perception of how the relationship was fairing could be drastically different from the other spouse's. In marriage, you were ultimately alone together.”

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Author:Tomi Obaro

“But marriages were mysterious and private things, even to the people in the marriages themselves. One spouse's perception of how the relationship was fairing could be drastically different from the other spouse's. In marriage, you were ultimately alone together”

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Book:Dele Weds Destiny

Source: Dele Weds Destiny

“The reality is that a marriage knot is a kind of knot around the spouse's neck.”

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Author:Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Causing active ongoing pleasure in your mate is something people tend to restrict to the sexual realm or getting attractive food on the table on time, but keeping permanent intimate comedy going is more important than any other one thing.”

Love Relationships Marriage Comedy Intimacy Spouses Roseanne

Book:Mating

Source: Mating

“In the patriarchal societies of ancient Israel, it was considered rewarding and traditional to have multiple wives, just as it was considered rewarding to have honor and wealth, so God, in 2 Samuel 12:7-8, was possibly giving the wives as a reward to David, but not necessarily as a way to permit polygamy. Knowing that God does not change his mind or his original intentions for society [ see Numbers 23:19], we know that God’s emphasis on the oneness of two spouses in Genesis 2:24 was not to be changed, so, even with the way God rewarded David, it does not indicate that God actually approved of David’s polygamy.”

Marriage Polygamy Spouses David

Book:Feminism and Biblical Hermeneutics

Source: Feminism and Biblical Hermeneutics