Robert Orben Quotes

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.

All couples have been told to schedule regular one-on-one time. 'Date night' is the default answer to most problems in modern marriages. And research backs this up.

When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails; I let it go off the rails.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

No intelligent government can continue to ignore the urgent priority of giving support and practical encouragement to marriage and family stability as the first response to growing social needs.

All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.

I also have a degree in marriage, family and child counseling - I'm a therapist.

If consulted by friends about marital dramas, I always encourage the singles to marry, the married to stick together, the neglectful and wayward to renew their loving commitment and the wronged to forgive.

Every couple goes through things.

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

I care about family issues.

I have known a few good marriages, but very few. And others look to me like they're pretty miserable. I don't really think that's a recipe for happiness.

Perhaps our greatest concern is with families. The family is falling apart all over the world. The old ties that bound together father and mother and children are breaking everywhere. We must face this in our own midst. There are too many broken homes among our own. The love that led to marriage somehow evaporates, and hatred fills its place. Hearts are broken, children weep.

People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

There are none of you, good doctors, could cope with my family anyway.

The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.

Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.

Professional marriage counselors agree that the most productive and mature way to deal with marital anger is to stomp dramatically from the room. You want to make your move before the opponent does, because the first person to stomp from the room receives valuable Argument Points that can be redeemed for exciting merchandise at the Marital Prize Redemption Center.

Why Family Therapy...because it deals with family pain.

Sarah lied about me. I never made the offer which she said I did. I will not advise you to break up your family - unless it were asked of me. Then I would council you to get a bill from your wife and marry a virtuous woman - and a new family but if you do not do it I shall never throw it in your teeth.

Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren't solved, they're dealt with.