Emily V. Gordon Quotes

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.

If it's not working before you get married, marriage isn't going to fix it.

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.

I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

I believe that the essence of marriage is choosing someone who loves you for who you are, embraces everything about you, and building a life with that person. Whether that life is with children or without children - it's honestly immaterial to building a life with someone that you love fully.

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

When I get married, I think what matters is you should be happy with the person you are living with.

Do not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you've offered today.

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

Determine that there will never be anything that will come between you that will disrupt your marriage. Make it work. Resolve to make it work.

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

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

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.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

Marriage gives you a new respect for a person.

People today expect too much from marriage. Getting married is really like taking on a big new job.

Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch.