I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry. [Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.]
I watch a romcom only when my wife drags me
If you are married and you go off and have an affair with someone, if you are a husband who does that, it may potentially hurt your wife enormously. But it seems to me likely also to compromise your marriage. That seems to me to be a harm.
A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.
There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.
If my wife made childhood obesity her mission and I signed a law making 1/8 cup of tomato paste a vegetable, I'd be sleeping on the sofa.
When people think, rightly or wrongly, that marriage is forever, they are stimulated to seek and find a resolution, a modus vivendi, whenever they quarrel.
The honeymoon is the only period when a woman isn't trying to reform her husband.
You don't stay married for 33 years and not compromise.
My wife loves football, but I think she's resigned to the fact that I'll never make it there.
