Mary Wesley Quotes

I shouldn't be married.

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

If consulted by friends about marital dramas, I always encourage the singles to marry, the married to stick together, the neglectful and wayward to renew their loving commitment and the wronged to forgive.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

Husbands and wives fight, and when the wife is packing up, the husband says, 'Don't leave! I'm gonna change!' Marriages stay together because people promise to change.

The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.

There comes a crossroads in every marriage where you grow together or grow apart. I outgrew Len. He wanted me to be in that leather jumpsuit for the rest of my life and do nothing else. He constrained me. It got to a point where the marriage died or I did.

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

Danny and I worked really hard in the beginning of the relationship to find different levels of this couple.

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

People don't get married to get divorced. Maybe people weren't meant to be together forever.

Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.

It's one of the hardest things in the world to sustain a monogamous relationship for many years. People out there who have been with their partners for 30 years or more - I salute you. But it's just as hard to admit something isn't working and then try to manage a civilised separation as best as you can.

Marriage gives you a new respect for a person.

It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.

Marriage is marriage. Everybody has problems.

I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

Family, to me, is most important, and I can't wait to have one of my own, but I am not going to rush into it. I don't want to get a divorce. I want to take my time, do it once and get it right.

I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage.

I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.

I have a strong marriage, and my wife and I love each other.

I only intended to be married one time. But marriages are made; they don't just happen. It takes two.

Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility?