James Lafferty Quotes

I'm not very good at being a wife because I break all the rules.

Brian and I have ups and downs like every marriage does. Although he's a legend, he's still, inside, an ordinary man, and I have got to remember that once we get inside the door, it's just us two.

She wasn't, nor ever had been, under the illusion that marriage was a relationship characterized by endless bliss and romance. Throw any two people together, add the inevitable ups and downs, give the mixture a vigorous stir, and a few stormy arguments were inevitable, no matter how the couple loved each other.

The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.

After the success of Buddenbrooks, he married and fathered six children. Yet the surviving diaries tell us of recurrent sexual problems - and of Katia Mann's extremely sympathetic response to them

If you have ever been to couples therapy it's really, really challenging.

There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry.

My dad has been married to his wife for 15 years and wherever he goes there better be a seat for her. I like real couples that tell you how to get through on Wednesdays when you're just at the end of your rope - the ones who really know how to make it through. We have to stop looking at Hollywood couples because you're going to get disappointed.

Every couple goes through things.

I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.

I have a very realistic image of what marriage should be. It takes effort, but it shouldn't be the hardest thing that you do.

Perhaps it's because I am reading romance differently than I did when I was younger, but I like my characters older. Grounded in reality. And nothing is more real than kids.

I call myself taking control of a situation, but sometimes you really have to learn to humble yourself and to submit yourself. I'm not really good with submission, so that's the part of marriage and relationships that I've found very hard to deal with.

I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.

Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet service to see who they really are.

Counseling was amazing, but I didn't know how loved I was until after my marriage had gone through its darkest time.

Marriage is hard. I'm not gonna lie.

I remember, in the early days of my marriage, I thought I married the wrong person. We held to our own ideas of what the other should be and do, but neither of us lived up to those expectations.

If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition.

Part of my purpose in my books has been to tell the complete story of a relationship and a marriage, not just to end with 'happily ever after,' leaving the protagonists at the altar or in bed... I wanted to show some of the complicated business of actually living a successful marriage.

I wrote that song 'Black,' and it was just this idea that I had been married for 10 years. Everyone talks about 'happily ever after,' but there's so much more to it than that.

I tell everyone in the world that I have always been the best father I could be and that I was the worst husband. Wooo!

There was imbalance with my first husband just by the given of our 29-year age difference and the difficulty of me being this unformed, enthusiastic young woman and he already completely in place being the leader of the country.

I think the mistake some people make is they try to change the man they love after they get married. You cannot change a person.