Kim Hawthorne Quotes

If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.

Sex role training becomes divorce training.

The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law.

I think being raised by a single mother put me on the outside, and I would watch my mother's married friends and think, 'Why does she put him down in public?' or, 'Why is he so rude to her?' It seemed to me that there were very few marriages where the couple were genuinely in a supportive, loving partnership.

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

I think there's definitely a way to tell a story, to also look at marriages that are working, but find drama from what's challenging them. That's what I think, certainly, 'Parenthood' is kind of about: the unexpected things that come up in your life that challenge you as a man, as a woman, as a husband and a wife, and as a parent.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.

I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.

Who hasn't had an argument with their mother-in-law?

I don't think you have to live in the fantasy world of Westeros to have problems with your mother-in-law.

You can't do sweatpants... ladies, number one cause of divorce in America, sweatpants, no!

When we got married, the first thing my wife did was put everything under both names - hers and her mother's.

I should have known something was wrong with my first wife. When I brought her home to meet my parents, they approved of her.

But I understand that relationship; I understand how the mother-in-law, daughter-in-law relationship has so many conflicts because it's so forced.

I've always thought flight was fun and wanted to write about flight, and I knew a lot of househusbands who were having a really bad time with it. I thought flight might perk up a marriage here or there.

Controlling mothers do not pass the baton to their son's new wife.

As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.

Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced.

I get sick of that old rationalization, "We're staying together because of the children." Kids couldn't be more miserable living with parents who can't stand each other. They're far better off if there's an honest, clean divorce.

She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.

Just because your wife schmoozes with somebody too much, you can't go throwing the kids out with the bath water! And that's the way the law's tied up right now.

I bought my mother-in-law a beautiful chair for Christmas, but she won't let me plug it in.

I was married to the number one douchebag of all time.