Nathaniel Branden Quotes

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?

Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.

A band is like a marriage, and if you're in a marriage with someone, and you lose yourself in that marriage, the relationship is over, really.

I figure when you get married, it doesn't matter how much you earn or how much your husband earns, just as long as everything you do for the house is together, while still reserving some part of yourself to be yourself.

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time.

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

Too many people get married and lose themselves. You have to fiercely hold on to who you are, and you need to celebrate that in the other person because that's what made you fall in love in the first place.

Perhaps my problem in marriage - and it is the problem of many women - was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

My husband has always agreed with me philosophically.

I don't think there's necessarily anything that's rock solid about any marriage. It's all about that balance, especially when you have kids.

a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

A husband should only be a part of your life and not your entire life.

No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.

You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!

I love Will Smith and Jada Pinkett. You see the love, and you can see the support, and they partner on things and produce together. But she has a life, and he has a life.

It's very important in any relationship that one partner doesn't lose themselves in the other, and that's very easy if you're involved with a celebrity.

You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.

When you have two people, separate beings, trying to share one life together. That's always going to have difficulties.

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.

A lot of women want to be married and have kids one day, but before we get there, it's so important to establish who you are, find yourself, and live in that for a minute before you become somebody's wife and mother.

Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.