Commitment Challenges Quotes

You know what getting married is? It's agreeing to taking this person who right now is at the top of his form, full of hopes and ideas, feeling good, looking good, wildly interested in you because you're the same way, and sticking by him while he slowly disintegrates. And he does the same for you. You're his responsibility now and he's yours. If no one else will take care of him, you will. If everyone else rejects you, he won't. What do you think love is? Going to bed all the time?

Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.

To have twenty lovers in one year is easy. To have one lover for twenty years is difficult.

And so a person can never promise to love someone forever because you never know what might come up, what terrible thing the person you love might do.

When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.

At a particularly dicey moment in my own love life when I was interviewing Rupert Murdoch a number of years ago, I tried to get some advice from him about, well, about anything a man with three wives, the latest the age of his children, might offer.

Researchers warn us against walking out on married life without a dang good reason.

I felt that I committed myself too much. I promised too much. But that way it's exciting.

[On marriage:] Someone once said that it was like a crowded church - those outside were endeavouring to get in, and those inside were making violent efforts to get out.

I think a big part of marriage is not going anywhere on those days you feel you really want to. It's like in the Barrier Islands. If you want to stay together, don't leave. I think just culturally - in the media, in movies, in books - we're trained to divorce when that first blush of sexual longing starts to fade. That's just where marriage starts.

I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it's something I'm doing.

Marriage is the cold potato of love.

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