Patricia Heaton Quotes

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

All I can say is marriage is hard.

Married life has become to many a necessary burden, but a burden that is shed very easily.

'Blue Valentine,' Derek Cianfrance's emotional gunslinger of a film, tears into the topic of moribund marriages with an honesty that's hard to come by in Hollywood these days.

I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

Every couple needs glue to stay together. Like all marriages, I suspect, if you're busy you don't see it coming until you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. It's a bit like going broke. It happens slowly and then very quickly.

Every couple goes through things.

American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.

Everyone knows marriage is tough.

Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.

I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs, and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave, he bought me three wedding rings already!

Marriage is hard. I'm not gonna lie.

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.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.

Staying focused is hard work and staying married is even harder.

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

I love my wife... but sometimes not so much. Frustration and fights can muck up a good thing. And just when a thing can move past differences and into the realm of peace and prosperity, another thing - an old idea or new interpretation or any spark that relights the paradigms that comfort us - will keep us where we are, where it is safe.

Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.

I shouldn't be married.

It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I've come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself.

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

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

I've been married to the same man for all this time. The way we fight sometimes, you can tell.