Couples therapy Quotes

It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time. It's supposed to be a surprise but it's commonplace.

Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.

Some wives have model husbands, I got one that needed remodeling.

Quarrels are a natural part of relationships. Making up is always the best part.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

To solve a marriage problem, you have to talk with each other about it, choosing wisely the time and place. But when accusations and lengthy speeches of defense fill the dialogue, the partners are not talking to each other but past each other. Take care to listen more than you speak. If you still can't agree on a solution, consider asking a third party, without a vested interest, to mediate.

Want to know the key to a long-lasting relationship? Don't go with your loved one to Ikea. One psychologist says the stress of a visit to the popular furniture store can cause serious friction between couples, whether it's disputes over what to buy or spats while you assemble the items that you bought there.

Many couples permit their marriages to become stale and their love to grow cold like old bread or worn-out jokes or cold gravy. These people will do well to reevaluate, to renew their courting, to express their affection, to acknowledge kindness, and to increase their consideration so their marriage again can become beautiful, sweet, and growing. While marriage is difficult, and discordant and frustrated marriages are common, yet real, lasting happiness is possible, and marriage can be more an exultant ecstasy than the human mind can conceive.

It's true Fang and I fight, but we've never gone to bed mad. Of course, one year we were up for three months.

I know a lot of people that have been in long-term relationships where cheating has happened, and their marriages and their relationships are actually stronger because it was a mirror that reflected back on a problem that was happening. It's hard.

I had a terrible fight with my wife on New Year's Eve. She called me a procrastinator. So I finished addressing the Christmas cards and left.

The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.

American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.

When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either.

Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes an agent that leads to failure.

under our love making I felt a bleakness that couldnt be dispelled. The sadness was in both of us, and I think we pitied ourselves that night, as if we were other people looking down on the couple who lay together on the bed

If your husband has difficulty getting to sleep, the words 'we need to talk about our relationship' may help.

Husband, when you tell your wife to go for counseling alone (because you think going to see a counselor is a sign you have failed) is like having a car you love overheat and deciding it's not manly to take it to the mechanic. You can keep on driving it but eventually you will ruin the engine.

The world is filled with unmarried marriage counselors.

They haven't made love for years but sleep holding hands

Work on your relationships... Relationships need renewal or they die.

Professional marriage counselors agree that the most productive and mature way to deal with marital anger is to stomp dramatically from the room. You want to make your move before the opponent does, because the first person to stomp from the room receives valuable Argument Points that can be redeemed for exciting merchandise at the Marital Prize Redemption Center.

Conflicts are not a sign you've married the wrong person. They simply affirm you are human.

In a relationship the way to overcome problems, is to focus our attention on higher principles that can help us transcend them.