Anita Dobson Quotes

Part of my purpose in my books has been to tell the complete story of a relationship and a marriage, not just to end with 'happily ever after,' leaving the protagonists at the altar or in bed... I wanted to show some of the complicated business of actually living a successful marriage.

The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.

It's just as hard... staying happily married as it is doing movies.

Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently it's the most difficult thing in the world.

Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.

I call myself taking control of a situation, but sometimes you really have to learn to humble yourself and to submit yourself. I'm not really good with submission, so that's the part of marriage and relationships that I've found very hard to deal with.

I don't think it's easy to be married to anyone.

I don’t have to live with the American People, but I do have to live with Lou (his wife).

Regardless of whether you're in a gay or heterosexual relationship, you're going to go through your ups and downs.

Everybody thinks, 'Oh, you're married to Howard Stern... You must be laughing all the time.' Yes, we are laughing all the time, but our lives together, it is not crazy.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

Y'know, every relationship is different. There are good marriages, bad marriages, connected partners, unconnected partners.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

As a rule, all relationships go through their ups and downs. It's really about how much you want it.

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.

How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business.

If I get married, it's something you really have to work at. It's hard enough to work at having a relationship with best friends and girls that are in the business.

There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place... But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.

People today expect too much from marriage. Getting married is really like taking on a big new job.

Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit.

I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.

I hate, for example, whenever you hear someone say, 'You have work at being a couple.'

Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.