Laura Wasser Quotes

What I would say is that vows and rings don't change anything: the challenges are the same. Every day is just a conscious commitment to making the next day better.

If you're with someone, it's because you're moving in the same direction, and you both are looking for the same thing. Both of you have to share the same concept of what a relationship means.

You don't get into a relationship just for the sake of having a boyfriend. Of course, you have hopes and dreams that your first relationship will be your last.

I don't believe [monogamy] is realistic. But, I believe that we, as people, have the power to make it happen.

Then I grew up and fell in love, I asked my sweetheart, 'what lies ahead?

I think a big part of marriage is not going anywhere on those days you feel you really want to. It's like in the Barrier Islands. If you want to stay together, don't leave. I think just culturally - in the media, in movies, in books - we're trained to divorce when that first blush of sexual longing starts to fade. That's just where marriage starts.

You can meet somebody at a club. You can meet somebody at a restaurant. But maybe that person is not on the same page. Maybe that person is like, 'I'm starting out, I don't want to get married now.' Or, 'I don't want to have kids.'

I think a man needs to be a man. To hold a woman the way she wants to be held. Just do whatever your woman wants, and you'll be fine.

If you're going to get engaged make sure you've talked to your partner about life together in the years to come.

What I've found in doing research is that men want a relationship that feels fun. In other words, they want a relationship that has qualities or elements of their same-sex relationships - just like women do, too.

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

I need my man to be my homie.

Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.

What is a spouse for? Not to be your personal servant, certainly!

I love my wife and I know she loves me. We're best friends. We're just lucky to have found each other. It takes a lot of work but I just feel very blessed that I found the right person. It's a very fortunate situation and not everyone has that.

The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.

A lot of relationships have ended for me in my 20s, because I knew that eventually those people would wanna settle down and have kids.

If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.

Family, to me, is most important, and I can't wait to have one of my own, but I am not going to rush into it. I don't want to get a divorce. I want to take my time, do it once and get it right.

Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.

A guy that's really serious about you, he's gotta be talking to you, he's gotta want to have one-on-one, in-your-face interaction. That's how we are.

When you're in a relationship, if you just break it down to regular terms, people are attracted to something, and that's what they want you to be, and that's what you should just be, and for me, it's very simple - if I meet a girl and I say, 'This is what I like about you. Just continue. Every day.'

Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?