Ann Romney Quotes

Everyone's marriage is different. But everyone's marriage is a compromise.

Being single has its ups and downs, and being in a relationship has its ups and downs. It depends on how you balance it and how you handle your problems within your relationship.

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

I think when a couple stays together, it's because of compromises they've both made.

I can definitely be tough when pushed. In relationships, you have to take a stand for who you are and how you're willing to be treated.

The thing is, every relationship is different, and when you start talking about your problems, other people tend to talk about theirs.

I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.

Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!

What I tell young couples that are getting married is: you're going to have quarrels, and on some things, you're just going to have to agree to disagree. And when you go to bed at night, kiss each other and tell each other that you love each other. Don't go to bed mad. Life is too short. Keep it simple.

I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.

I think in most relationships that have problems, there's fault on both sides. And in order for it to work, there has to be some common ground that's shared. And it's not just one person making amends.

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

I think any husband knows when to stand down when it comes to domestic disputes. After 13 years of marriage, I even think I may have it figured out.

My missus knows to leave me alone.

We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

My stay-married secret would probably be exercising good communication, not when you have to but all the time. I think if you do that, you kinda just cleanse the situations, so there's not build up. I think that's probably the best way to do it.

For there to be communication within a couple, it is enough for there to be only one person who communicates or who really wants to communicate. Even though a couple consists of two people, if one of the people in a couple puts all their effort into moving a couple along they will move along.

In marriage, it's always that give and take and rebalancing that we have to do in how we can help each other. But, I have been known at times by my sons, that is the name that they call me-the Mitt stabilizer.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

It takes two to make a relationship, but only one to screw it up.

As we mature, there are people with whom we run out of steam, but there are also those with whom a little straight talking would prove rewarding.