Betty Ford Quotes

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

I do think it's very important, if you're going to spend the rest of your life with somebody, to know that you really like them. Because when the pheromones wear off, which of course they will, you have to have a strong basis.

When I get married, I think what matters is you should be happy with the person you are living with.

My experience of what a loving relationship is like rings true with a lot of people I meet. I have a theory that the people you meet, one way you choose them, is their suitability for you in that particular matter. Attitudes toward friendship and marriage are in many cases closely aligned.

Do not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you've offered today.

I do think that marriage can be a wonderful thing if it's the right thing for the two people involved. I believe in love - very much so - how can you not believe after you've experienced it? I believe in relationships. One day, I know I'll find the right woman and get married myself.

Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.

A good marriage shuts out a very great deal.

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

Finding the one is not just a feeling, it's an educated guess. I feel like I chose someone to share my life with who is my friend.

Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.

Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.

I think for love to work you have to be with someone who you want to talk to before going to bed at night.

My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

Of all the myriad ways we define love, there is perhaps none more honest and powerful than this: Great love is rooted in great partnership.

I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

I want a man in my life, not in my house.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.

I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person.