Gary Chapman Quotes

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

The deal is: most men just want to marry someone who is nice to them.

There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry.

I've never really thought I'd get married. It's not that I'm suspicious of it or anything like that, it's just that I don't have a reference for it because my mum wasn't.

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.

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

The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.

If somebody says to me, 'Oh, you're gonna get married and you'll never be attracted to anybody else again,' I'm like, right, sure. It's just not practical to me on an emotional level. Just because I'm married, I'm not dead.

Women are more likely to have sex and fall in love, which can be tough because that's not the way men work.

I think that with marriages, people have to understand that you have to look at your marriage and understand what is needed in your marriage - not what people think your marriage should be or what people want your marriage to be.

When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.

Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

I didn't want to get married. What I knew of most men was something I didn't want any part of. I just wanted to work on my career.

Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance.

I've always said men should study romance novels to find out how women think and what they want, both during the courtship phase and in a lifelong partner.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

I'm not going to marry a third time. It is just not necessary.

I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.

I've had four amazing men in my life, very strong, powerful, wonderful men. I certainly will have a relationship with someone but I don't think I will get married again.

For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality, the romcoms, like horoscopes, swiftly lost their allure.

Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.

Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?

I am not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn't married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn't gay? I knew I was lucky.