Laura Wasser Quotes

If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it.

Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married - the other half because they're not.

People shouldn't stay married because of the kids. That's torture for everyone.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I'm not sure why I did it, but it's a pretty depressing state.

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

I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school.

In a sacred ground like marriage, you find yourself out of it at certain times for reasons unknown that can be destructive. There could be a demon that kind of comes out and overtakes you.

I want just to be happy and peaceful. And that's not always the case when you're married.

I have nothing against her, and in fact I'm very fond of my first wife. But we should have ended that marriage eight or 10 years earlier.

I was very academically inclined. But my inner life was in such turmoil. I'd go home and my home life was so miserable that it just felt like I was doing everything that I was supposed to do. I did all my chores, made really good grades, and I was excelling at school, but I wasn't happy.

When you're unhappy in your marriage, your children are the ones who suffer.

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.

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

Childhood is so important. Without a loving one, you're vulnerable throughout your life. We're all the things our parents are - the good and the not so good. Thankfully, I have a wonderful wife who's a brilliant mother.

I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single.

We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and family to find us and remind us of all the good that has been and will be.

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

The good things never stay in your head. Only the bad things live on.

It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved.

Couples counseling gets many couples back together. But not all, and not always. For your own sake and that of your children, however, I recommend it - I almost insist on it - as the first step for anyone unhappy in a relationship.

Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going through failing relationships, ending them, and confronting issues of custody and support.

There's something about sitting face-to-face with an attorney in an office that enables people to come to grips with the very idea of divorce - or to reconsider the idea. Like a number of my colleagues - not all - I offer that preliminary consultation for free.

Players would empty their souls to me; you cannot fathom the stories I've heard, everything from the good to the bad. I tried whatever I could to work things out.