Laura Bush Quotes

Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.

It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.

Every married man who wants peace in the relationship, should learn the trick to avoid that one question - 'How is the food?'

The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.

He [her husband] asks me for advice and doesn't take it as much as he does.

I could never give relationship advice to anybody!

Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

When a woman is frustrated, and it's your wife, you as the husband get that frustration.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

The kind of issues that we face as detectives are similar to what the other married couples out there are facing, or the brother and sister, or the brother and brother are facing. Relationships are universal.

I think I was a terrible husband, I think I'm a terrible boyfriend.

The second time around, I'll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn't care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

Advice to persons about to marry - don't.

Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.

I never ever, ever say anything against my husband to anyone except my husband. Everyone gets in fights, and I think the natural propensity for women is, 'Oh I want to talk to someone.' But the minute you take what bothers you outside the bond between you and your husband, you let someone else into the relationship and that causes a wedge.

It's not easy working with your husband, I'll be straight up about that. But when we work together, we always get great product. It's not easy in the process and as we go along it gets easier, but yeah, it gets a little sticky.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

Family matters should be that and stay in the family.

You kind of restructure your whole personality to be in a healthy relationship.

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

Always be your husband's best friend, make him laugh and give him a little bit of freedom - you can't suffocate him.

I'm fairly in tune with what's private with my husband and with me.

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.

Do you think your mother and I should have liv’d comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married?