Marriage Strain Quotes

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness; later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.

Married life has become to many a necessary burden, but a burden that is shed very easily.

It's really, really, really difficult to have the same occupation as the person you're with - especially when you're both actors.

A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.

Being married to a wrestler has its unique challenges, being a wrestler married to a wrestler is next level.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Love can produce the children, but it has nothing to do with the raising of the children. I grew up thinking, 'Oh, that's it. All I have to do is fall in love.' You may think love will change everything, but it really is different with children. Children don't necessarily bring you together; they challenge you.

My wife, as proud as she was of me, hated show business for good reasons. There was something about the spouse always being pushed out of the way, shoved aside. She wanted to get away from it.

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.

It's hard to be married to me, and it was a lot harder when I was younger!

I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?

At Cisco, I made every decision based on what was good for the company, and that pretty much ruined my marriage and my health.

It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.

Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with.

In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.' My husband is a writer of crime novels. His name is William Gordon. And so I had to accommodate to his style because that's what he writes. So we decided we'd give it a try. Well, we almost divorced.

As an actor, you travel so much. It isn't great for a marriage.

If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you've made a whole new load of friends and she's made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you're kind of strangers.

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.

Your manager is your boss and tells you what to do, what to wear and who to be, so our relationship changed. I loved him with all my heart, but felt he'd stopped looking at me as a wife. I became a product.