Courtney Thorne-Smith Quotes

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

I've been in a long-term relationship, and I'll tell you, it's never boring! People trying to merge their lives together always run into challenges.

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

I think when you're in a relationship, either you have something or your partner generally has something that you're having to deal with.

I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.

I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.

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

When I get married, I think what matters is you should be happy with the person you are living with.

I knew that it was harder to unite two lives than I had imagined growing up. I knew that relationships could be fragile.

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.

With any long-term relationship, you have good days and bad days.

I have a very intense marriage.

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

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

When people get married young, you don't really understand the true definition of marriage.

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

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

A relationship is work, and it changes. And you go with the changes. It's more good times than bad times, but it's not always good. You have to overcome those issues and move on.

I think I was a terrible husband, I think I'm a terrible boyfriend.

A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want.

Free love never works.