Ann Landers Quotes

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

We talk about issues, but I'm not his adviser, I'm his wife... I find that it's really best not to give your spouse a lot of advice. I don't want a lot of advice from him.

My mother once told me that if a married couple puts a penny in a pot for every time they make love in the first year, and takes a penny out every time after that, they'll never get all the pennies out of the pot.

Not everyone wants to know everything their partner did. Maybe it's enough to say, "Things aren't going well in our marriage. I've made mistakes. I don't think you've been a good partner to me. How do we go forward together?" I think there's a different answer for every couple. But I think intimacy is asking that question.

Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.

Talk to each other. Never go to bed when you're angry with each other. Lady Antonia Frasier who was married to Harold Pinter said they never went to bed on an argument.

I have an amazing relationship with my wife, but sometimes there are arguments. It happens.

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

Advice to persons about to marry - don't.

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

What I tell young couples that are getting married is: you're going to have quarrels, and on some things, you're just going to have to agree to disagree. And when you go to bed at night, kiss each other and tell each other that you love each other. Don't go to bed mad. Life is too short. Keep it simple.

We will often talk to Liz Smith about couples and relationships because she always has an inside track, too.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

I think any husband knows when to stand down when it comes to domestic disputes. After 13 years of marriage, I even think I may have it figured out.

Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards.

Every married man who wants peace in the relationship, should learn the trick to avoid that one question - 'How is the food?'

Even married people have differences of opinion, I'm told.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.

In marriage, there's a lot of ignoring each other, which is hard to fake on-screen.

I have a lot of guy-like quintessential relationship qualities that I have had to work on.