Pete Holmes Quotes

There comes a crossroads in every marriage where you grow together or grow apart. I outgrew Len. He wanted me to be in that leather jumpsuit for the rest of my life and do nothing else. He constrained me. It got to a point where the marriage died or I did.

If two people are not happy together, it's better to end the relationship than prolong the suffering.

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

My relationship with Dean was great, but ultimately it wasn't a fulfilling marriage for either of us.

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.

The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

I was a firm believer that if you get married, then that should be it. But it's sadly not always the case; sometimes people can't remain together for whatever reason.

I shouldn't be married.

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

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

I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with.

I'm not a divorce monger by any means, but if you're not happy in a relationship, and you've grown apart, it's not healthy for a couple to stay together. It's better for kids to see two happy parents than two miserable parents.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.

Husbands and wives fight, and when the wife is packing up, the husband says, 'Don't leave! I'm gonna change!' Marriages stay together because people promise to change.

If you are in a relationship, it has to be a good one. If it isn't, it's best to just leave it.

As difficult as it was to break off the wedding, we wanted to be in a better place together - especially when you go through a life-changing event like a wedding.

Being married was a huge part of my life. I spent six and a half years with someone, and it didn't work. Anyone in a long-term relationship knows how hard that is.

As a child, I remember seeing what a struggle it was for both my parents to accommodate and adjust to the idea of not being together. They cared for each other deeply; they loved each other. They just couldn't stay together because they wanted different things from life and sometimes, it happens.

Sometimes marriages break up, sometimes relationships don't work.

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

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

All my six husbands married me for different reasons.

It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!

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.