William Shakespeare Quotes

I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.

Awkward conversations are painful, but they're way easier than divorce, resentment, and heartbreak.

Though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership.

Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.

I know all about cheating. I've had six very successful marriages.

I believe that anybody who gets married should go to a counselor for months before the wedding. I think that's going to save guys a lot of money and the ladies a lot of heartbreak.

My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.

If I have a problem with someone I talk about them. I don't pick on their kids.

I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV.

When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.

My stay-married secret would probably be exercising good communication, not when you have to but all the time. I think if you do that, you kinda just cleanse the situations, so there's not build up. I think that's probably the best way to do it.

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.

There is probably no such thing as a good divorce, but clinging to an old idea of how relationships are unraveled can make a bad thing even worse.

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.

No amount of ill usage, without adultery superadded, will in England free a wife from her tormentor.

If any wife behaves badly, her husband may whip her. But then they shall look each other in the face and laugh together, and have no more ill will.

America may soon experience the transition that has already occurred in Australia where living together before marriage has become a protective factor against divorce.

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

For a long time, I have been wanting to write a book for singles that would help them in the dating process and in getting ready for marriage. Most of my writing, I've written to couples who are already married, because I've been doing marriage counseling for 35 years.

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.'

Some people feel divorce is an excuse to not compromise. Yes, in life you have to adapt and compromise. But the questions is - when does it stop? How much is too much, how less is too little? That's a personal choice.

Even when people don't stay married, they can still be a family together. That's been something that's been really good for developing me as a person. It's been a very positive learning experience.