Phil McGraw Quotes

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.

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

Most unmarried people have no idea what it takes to make a marriage work; they grossly underestimate the price people have to pay to build long-term, mutually satisfying relationships. And they fail to understand that the only people with the strength to pay that price are those who have plumbed the depths of their relationship with God, and have dealt with their own brokenness.

Married people do stand up so for each other when you say a word, however they may fight between themselves.

It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time. It's supposed to be a surprise but it's commonplace.

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.

The best piece of advice I received before I got married was, "Be careful what you say when you're in a fight, because it could stick in someone's head." I don't think I've ever said anything I really regretted. I'm very sympathetic to women. I've really studied wife-ology, and I know you've got to figure out the feelings. Deal with the feelings.

Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.

I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.

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.

Even married people have differences of opinion, I'm told.

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

I think that the divorce rate's over 50% for a reason. I don't think people are taking enough time now to really see if they can make it work and live together.

I've got a lot of little quirks and moments that - my wife, she knows exactly what to say and how to handle me, 'cause I can be hard to handle.

When you marry a triple Virgo, there's no way to meditate the stress away.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love.

Marriage...one of the most civilized institutions in the world...But...swimming is one of the most wonderful of sports, and yet there are always some people who cannot swim who insist on going into the water and getting drowned. Many people spoil marriage in a like manner. One should be sure she knows how to be married before rushing into it.

In marriage people get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person. If you do want to hurt the other person, then shame on you - you're an asshole. My wife and I do not argue. We communicate. We talk. But we've never fought in our entire relationship.

The reason why you date people is to get to know who you're gonna marry and spend the rest of your life with