Vance McAllister Quotes

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

It is difficult for me to understand the tragic accounts of troubled marriages that come to me.

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

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.

I was in a marriage, and we didn't make it. So my hope is, through my music, I can help heal some relationships that may be headed in that direction.

When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.

My wife disagrees with 100 percent of what I say. That's the same marriage I have.

You can't go through a divorce and then get back together.

I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry.

Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married - the other half because they're not.

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

My experience with music, I'm not going to say extremely negative, but it's definitely been a grind; it's been grimy - it hasn't been a pretty process. It's left me crying, you know, on the carpet in my tiny apartment with, like, no money. But it's been worth it, it's my passion, my dream, it's what I love to do.

Every couple goes through things.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

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.

I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single.

I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it's something I'm doing.

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

Couples counseling gets many couples back together. But not all, and not always. For your own sake and that of your children, however, I recommend it - I almost insist on it - as the first step for anyone unhappy in a relationship.

Counseling was amazing, but I didn't know how loved I was until after my marriage had gone through its darkest time.

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

A lot of books about marriage are about marriages falling apart.

Many people from many different walks of life have marriages that break up, and those are deeply personal, deeply painful but ultimately private matters.