Patricia Rae Quotes

Husbands, be patient with your wives; and wives, be patient with your husbands. Don't expect perfection. Find agreeable ways to work out the differences that arise.

In a marriage, we have to accommodate each other's views.

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

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.

You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

If you want to get along with somebody, let them be right, and it will last longer.

I have differences with every single human being I know, but that difference shouldn’t define our relationship.

Learn to accept your spouse's point of view, and allow them their emotions because you'd expect the same thing in return.

Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't.

Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.

Life with another person is always difficult.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

My wife Patrice, in addition to being enormously supportive, has taught me a lot about life. She might argue it's because I have so much to learn. One of the most important things I've learned is the art of listening.

Every relationship is work.

If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.

It is our responsibility to find God in someone who is different from us. I think that God basically says, 'I created diversity on purpose, and it is your responsibility to figure out how to make it work.'

Marriage is hard work, period.

Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.

True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.

One of the things you learn when you get married is how you need to always work on continuing to make it better.

Treat the other man's faith gently: it is all he has to believe with.