Laura Wasser Quotes

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

I get so many messages from people seeking advice to mend their relationship.

Many relationships can become difficult, and it can be hard to find a way back.

Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married - the other half because they're not.

American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.

We busted a lot of family secrets with this. But to make a long story short, my parents relationship was built heavily on security issues for my Mom, and when my Dad couldn't provide security, the relationship unraveled.

It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved.

A lot of shows have couples with issues inside the relationship.

I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.

My wife doesn't even want to spend 2 hours with me.

I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with.

When you're unhappy in your marriage, your children are the ones who suffer.

When someone comes up to me and says, 'Mary, you helped save my marriage', or, 'Mary, you helped me get out of this abusive relationship', I'm in it, really in their lives. And I'm so passionate about my feelings, but also about showing people the way through theirs.

Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going through failing relationships, ending them, and confronting issues of custody and support.

The trouble with anyone when they're unhappy or in a relationship they recognize is not working but don't know what to do about is that they can't see farther out than that. If the relationship is not working, if what was there isn't there anymore, you have to do something about it.

A lot of books about marriage are about marriages falling apart.

Everybody's had problems with their family. Everybody's had the pressures of finding the right love or not loving the right person because other people say so.

Some struggling marriages can be salvaged with hard work and counseling; others should be dismantled and stripped for parts.

To solve a marriage problem, you have to talk with each other about it, choosing wisely the time and place. But when accusations and lengthy speeches of defense fill the dialogue, the partners are not talking to each other but past each other. Take care to listen more than you speak. If you still can't agree on a solution, consider asking a third party, without a vested interest, to mediate.

Husband, when you tell your wife to go for counseling alone (because you think going to see a counselor is a sign you have failed) is like having a car you love overheat and deciding it's not manly to take it to the mechanic. You can keep on driving it but eventually you will ruin the engine.

Unlike most divorces, where the children were usually the first to know, my parents were very good about keeping that a secret.

My family and I have such a different dynamic now. We've talked through a lot of our abuse.

When I was growing up, I never saw couples fight on the family sitcoms I loved to watch. Subsequently, when tough times arose in my own relationship, I wasn't prepared and felt so isolated and alone. Marital issues weren't a part of the narrative that television told me was a 'working relationship.'