Colleen Hoover Quotes

No one goes into a marriage - when I went into my marriage many years ago, I thought I'd end my life with Randy [White]. And the divorce is not anything that I ever wanted to happen.

Marriage is one of the most difficult things in the world and unfortunately sometimes they fail.

It's easy to get married, but hard to stay that way.

Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.

Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced.

The biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

Researchers warn us against walking out on married life without a dang good reason.

I never wanted to marry Roger Clemens. I wanted him to do right by his family.

Getting married was a ball. Being married was... a nightmare.

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

I've been married to Kris for 21 years, and there have always been rocky times. And it's nothing special.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for two years, then we got married... disaster.

There are a lot of reasons why marriages don't continue.

I still think marriage is a goofy institution if you set it up as this institution with a predetermined set of rules. It's unhealthy to have a predisposed expectation of what you think a marriage should be - as this thing at the end of the rainbow. False expectations take away joy.

Modern multiple divorce is rooted in the fact that many are seeking in human relationships what human relationships can never give. Why do they have multiple divorce, instead of merely promiscuous affairs? Because they are seeking more than merely sexual relationship.

Pity the married couple who expect too much from one another.

The problem of unmet expectations in marriage is primarily a problem of stereotyping. Each and every human being on this planet is a unique person. Since marriage is inevitably a relationship between two unique people, no one marriage is going to be exactly like any other. Yet we tend to wed with explicit visions of what a “good” marriage ought to be like. Then we suffer enormously from trying to force the relationship to fit the stereotype and from the neurotic guilt and anger we experience when we fail to pull it off.