Marly Youmans Quotes

You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.

Marriage, in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.

There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.

Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.

The best part of being married is, everything we face in life, we face as a team. I don't do a thing - professionally or personally - without discussing it with my wife.

Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.

Sally is my wife, but not my chattel or my property.

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

Marriage is... OK, it's rooted and grounded on love and attraction.

In marriage, someone has to be a giver and someone a taker. I am a taker who married a giver.

In 'Friday Night Lights,' the relationship between the coach and his wife, that marriage was something that you couldn't really understand until you actually saw it exist on film.

I don't know if you're married, but sometimes there are times where one is really together with their partner. And then there are times when you're both just in your own thing, but you're there together.

I love being married.

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.

I am not married yet, but I think ultimately in a good marriage it is the relationship which is the most important thing. It is not a matter of who is right and who is wrong; it is a one plus one equals more than two.

You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.

There's a lot less time in the day when you're in a relationship.

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.

Perhaps my problem in marriage - and it is the problem of many women - was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.

You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.