Jenna McCarthy Quotes

'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.

When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.

I believe that the dissolution of a marriage comes about by the breaking down of self-esteem.

Things don't change in a marriage until the spouse who is taking responsibility for a problem that is not hers decides to say or do something about it.

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.

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

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.

I shouldn't be married.

I'm somebody's ex-wife, and I did things that drove him nuts. And now I'm somebody's girlfriend, for many years, and I've got different things that drive him nuts.

Getting married was a ball. Being married was... a nightmare.

'The Last Five Years' was a musical in 2002, and it's a deconstruction of a marriage.

I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.

I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.

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!

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.

You gotta fight. You gotta get out the negative energy. Don't let it build up. You end up screaming at each other over something totally stupid, like, 'Well, why'd you put this spoon in this drawer then?' 'Just to p-s you off, that's why! I got spoons hidden all over this house! Keep it up, and your napkin rings are gonna start disappearing.'

It takes two to destroy a marriage.

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.

You're crazy. You're impossible.' 'I'm crazy?' He tipped my chin up and planted a quick, rough kiss on my mouth. 'And I must be crazy for putting up with it.

An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths - by panicked shouting.

In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.

I see a lot of marriages crash and burn around me and my wife. I've always been curious about how hard it is to love well and be loved.

On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna). She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case. . . .

I would just turn my back and wouldn't talk to him.

Well, my wife doesn't engage. I mean if you want to look back, really dig down and be a journalist, look at the timelines and you will see that there is a big discrepancy and there really is no going back and forth, my wife sometimes I mean you eventually you have to say something, enough is enough, but the truth is she has always taken the high road.