We’ve got a theme going this month for whatever reason, let’s stick with it.
The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
~ Alan Patrick Herbert
One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else. In fact, arguments often serve the purpose of using up energy, so that the couple do not have to take the courageous, creative leap into an unknown they fear. Arguing serves the function of being …read more

Well, it seems that the results of the poll are fairly conclusive. Most seem to be with the person that they believe to be their true love. I’m not surprised by that. Maybe just because I’m a romantic, or maybe because I’ve been successfully brainwashed by Hallmark and Hollywood. Either way, that’s me.
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Still, there are a significant number of voters who think that the “love of your life” concept doesn’t matter, or that they know that the love of their life is/was someone else. I’m not sure how I process that bit. I think …read more

I like this one.
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
Zig Ziglar

That’s a common mantra for Bald Man and me. When we’re in the midst of stress and frustration, all one of us has to say is, “We’re on the same team…remember?”, and that tends to make any burden so much more bearable.

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you’ll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.
~Erma Bombeck
I know you’ve been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.
~Johnny Carson
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A few new quotes to introduce the new year:
When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same
person, he said, “Ruth and I are happily incompatible.”
Billy Graham
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how
compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
Leo Tolstoy

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Theodore Hesburgh
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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
~Lao Tzu

“Marriage is like pi – natural, irrational, and very important”
~ Lisa Hoffman

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of person your spouse would have really preferred.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.”
George Burns.
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photo credit: Gaetan Lee

“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.”
~Socrates.
“My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.”
~Jimmy Durante.
“It was a perfect marriage. She didn’t want to and he couldn’t.”
~Spike Milligan
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I’m in a money mood lately, so here are a few quotes keeping with that theme…
Never marry for money. Ye’ll borrow it cheaper.
~Scottish Proverb
Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
~Robert Graves
Someone once asked me why women don’t gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don’t have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women’s total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
~Gloria Steinem