Teri Polo Quotes

Being in a successful marriage is no different than being cast in a successful movie. It's all about who you pick; in that first moment, did you pick the right person? I think you need to pick somebody who's more interested in being married than in getting married.

Getting married and really digging in with another human being can point out your greatest strengths and your greatest weaknesses.

I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.

I just thought you only need to like a person to marry him, which's quite naive.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

There's a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

You have to want to be married to someone. You have to feel that reciprocated. Marriage for marriage's sake doesn't make any sense to me, and I found someone with whom I could put my money where my mouth is, I guess.

I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place... But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.

Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.

They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.

I don't know if I'm built for marriage.

Dating has taught me what I want and don't want, who I am, and who I want to be.

After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.

I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

As I get older I realize what qualities are important in love and what suits me. And what I won't settle for.

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves; that is true.

I think that you first have to understand that our sexuality is a gift that God has given us. Then you grow in that respect and love with your spouse or girlfriend to-be-wife. You respect her! Then you realize you're loving their heart, their soul and you grow together.

Marriage isn't the end-point of a relationship. It's just a stepping stone, one aspect of a long-term evolution between two people who have, for whatever reason, decided to take a leap of faith and say, 'Well, hey, this is a person who I want to try with for the rest of my life.' Which is not a guarantee of perfection - far from it.

I have a very intense marriage.

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

In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.

A girl's got to be fun. It's the one bit of advice I always give to friends of mine who are thinking of getting married.