relationship endurance Quotes

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.

Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you.

Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages.

All marriages are happy, it's living together afterward that's tough.

In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

In any relationship you have times where it gets tedious. But that becomes a strength. That you are able to hang around someone even when they get on your nerves.

It takes a long time to really be married. One marries many times at many levels within that marriage. If you have more marriages than you have divorces within the marriage, you’re lucky and you stick it out.

My parents only had one argument in 45 years. It lasted 43 years.

Never marry anyone you could not sit next to during a three-day bus trip.

I've been married 34 years. I have not been a perfect man. I have made mistakes in my life.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

The magic isn't in getting married, it's in staying married.

Perhaps this is in the end what most marriages are - gentleness, memory, and habit.

I've never seen anyone deal in a literary way with what it takes to stay married for more than 50 years, and that seemed like a worthy goal.

I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend many years with your lives intertwined, but in the end another soul can be fundamentally unknowable. And I think that the stress of war, when one party goes away and the other has to deal at home, is a really testing time in a lot of marriages.

've had good friends who got married after they've been together for years and they've said that it was the "next step" for them. Or, they've said, "You just can't bail out anymore." And I've wondered, What made you think you could just bail out before [the wedding]? You don't invest that kind of time and energy with somebody and then just go, "All right, see you later."

When I look at my parents I'm like, 'This is easy. Staying together for 35 years? How hard is that?' They're like, 'Very hard.

In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.

Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?

I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick to death of people mentioning it.

Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It's harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next.

Love goes through different stages. But it endures.

True love isn't the kind that endures through long years of absence, but the kind that endures through long years of propinquity.