Laura Wasser Quotes

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

I'm considering getting married again. I've not lost faith in that institution. I'm older; I'm smarter. I'm no longer searching for something to complete me... and therefore I'm now able to find someone to be a partner with.

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

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

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.

Being in a successful marriage is no different than being cast in a successful movie. It's all about who you pick; in that first moment, did you pick the right person? I think you need to pick somebody who's more interested in being married than in getting married.

If somebody has never been married, they don't know compromise.

Living together is an art.

I think that's what makes a successful marriage: a mindful sense of self and the ability to make clear choices to stay together or choices not to.

I just thought you only need to like a person to marry him, which's quite naive.

A lot of people end up getting married more out of expectation than out of passion for each other, but if your options have ever been, 'We either get married or break up,' be careful. Marriage should be a new addition you add to the house that is your relationship, not the structure you impose on the house once it's already built.

People get married for a wide array of reasons and have all sorts of expectations of how marriage will change the relationship. And while it's true that turning the person you're dating into a legal partner does affect certain things, those who expect marriage to be a cure-all for all your relationship woes are sorely mistaken.

I have a very intense marriage.

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 think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

If it's not working before you get married, marriage isn't going to fix it.

I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.

Danny and I worked really hard in the beginning of the relationship to find different levels of this couple.

A girl's got to be fun. It's the one bit of advice I always give to friends of mine who are thinking of getting married.

Everyone says romance goes flying out the window when you've been together for an X amount of time. I think it's all up to you.

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

In America, we are demanding everything from our marriage.