Laura Wasser Quotes

Approach your business partners with concepts that they can get their heads around, and try to respond to their needs.

There comes a crossroads in every marriage where you grow together or grow apart. I outgrew Len. He wanted me to be in that leather jumpsuit for the rest of my life and do nothing else. He constrained me. It got to a point where the marriage died or I did.

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

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.

It's one of the hardest things in the world to sustain a monogamous relationship for many years. People out there who have been with their partners for 30 years or more - I salute you. But it's just as hard to admit something isn't working and then try to manage a civilised separation as best as you can.

The thing is, when you have a child with someone, like it or not, you're going to have to have a continuing relationship with them.

Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you otherwise?

I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.

You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.

I've never understood why the end of a relationship - especially one involving children - has to immediately signal a descent into hatred and toxicity.

You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn't want to let fail. I'm a big advocate of therapy and third-party intervention.

It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved.

I'm not a divorce monger by any means, but if you're not happy in a relationship, and you've grown apart, it's not healthy for a couple to stay together. It's better for kids to see two happy parents than two miserable parents.

There's always a way to talk.

We can calm down our argument a little so that we can learn what it is that we are actually arguing about.

We want instant food … instant peace. We need patience, patience, patience

Dictates are futile, and mutual accusations are nothing but useless word games.

I thought divorce was for people that threw plates at each other, and I'd have to be an alcoholic or having affairs. But the truth is, sometimes a very sweet, well-meaning person just doesn't do it for you, and you need to get out of there.

Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.

One of the things I always tell people when they're going to get married is, in order to have a lasting relationship, there are a couple of things you need to discuss. One is finance, obviously. Then there's religion, politics, kids, how you discipline kids, and how many kids you want to have.

I don't think that confrontation always leads to a solution.

I do believe that any conflict has a better chance of being resolved if two people can come face to face.

I'm not trying to strike everybody out.

As a child, I remember seeing what a struggle it was for both my parents to accommodate and adjust to the idea of not being together. They cared for each other deeply; they loved each other. They just couldn't stay together because they wanted different things from life and sometimes, it happens.

Partners fall in and out of love, but they still need each other.