Hannah Simone Quotes

We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children's problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it's fine, and then some days we just are at each other's throat.

When a woman is frustrated, and it's your wife, you as the husband get that frustration.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

You don't always necessarily see eye to eye with the people that you are getting married into you, so you really have to learn to open your mind, open your heart and be super compassionate about other people's points of view, faith and opinions.

The second time around, I'll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn't care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.

Marriage is hard, and it can be tough when you're both actors.

I feel what a spouse can do for you, no child or parent can. Just that if you get the right connect with your spouse, you get it going right.

The best you can sometimes do is learn to take a breath, count to ten and simply accept that try as you might, no, your husband will never, ever learn not to drop a wet towel on the bed. That acceptance too counts as resolving a fight.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

Every married man who wants peace in the relationship, should learn the trick to avoid that one question - 'How is the food?'

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

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

Filtering can be a very good thing when it comes to human relationships and familial harmony. Yeah, filtering is often an absolute necessity.

Don't beg, don't threaten and don't assume you're always right.

Awkward conversations are painful, but they're way easier than divorce, resentment, and heartbreak.

I tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen.

It's important to work through things in a relationship. You can't just give up because you're frustrated. It's most important to talk things through together. And that, for me, has been the way I've best resolved problems in the past.

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

I think I'm a much better father as an older man than I was with my first kids. Occasionally, I have to yell at the little guys, but they don't take me seriously. 'Listen to the old guy,' they say. 'Isn't he great? He's mad.'

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.

Staying focused is hard work and staying married is even harder.