Emily V. Gordon Quotes

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

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

There is nothing more humiliating than loving someone so much that you forgive the infidelities.

Now, it's true I married my wife for her looks... but not the ones she's been givin' me lately.

Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn't happy. The next obvious candidate for introspection was my marriage.

If you're unhappy in a relationship, I think you just don't trust yourself for getting into another one.

My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.

I know all about cheating. I've had six very successful marriages.

For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.

Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.

I have so many questions about love. How do you win at it? Especially if you're in a relationship with an impossible person? What if you believe in someone who's completely untrustworthy, who at their core can't even believe in themselves?

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

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

Every couple needs glue to stay together. Like all marriages, I suspect, if you're busy you don't see it coming until you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. It's a bit like going broke. It happens slowly and then very quickly.

I'm not getting within 20 feet of a married man ever again - not even talking to one!

I can't get a relationship to last longer than it takes to make copies of their tapes.

I am terrible at relationships.

If I've been dating someone for, say, five months, and she cheats on me, I don't think it would be worth it. I'm not committed enough to the situation to give her a second chance.

I'm a terrible husband.

I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.

The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

No matter how committed a marriage, there will always be other people - those we have chemistry with and those we don't, those we are attracted to, and those who shop for functional outdoors wear. The sooner a couple can accept the existence of the former and exchange a few basic reassurances concerning them, the easier life gets.

Is the relationships with your spouses of such fragility that the fact that I have a committed, loving relationship with another man jeopardizes them?

I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

I've seen my friends take someone back after they've cheated because they fit perfectly.