Marital Frustration Quotes

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.

Show me a husband who keeps his thoughts to himself, and I will show you a frustrated wife.

I was married for 30 years. Isn't that enough? I've had my share of dirty underwear on the floor.

When a woman is frustrated, and it's your wife, you as the husband get that frustration.

Though her husband often went on business trips, she hated to be left alone. "I've solved your problem," he said. "I've bought you a St. Bernard. Its name is Great Reluctance. Now, when I go away, you shall know that I am leaving you with Great Reluctance!" She hit him with a waffle iron.

I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way.

It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

Marriage accustomed one to the good things, so one came to take them for granted, but it magnified the bad things, so they came to feel as painful as a grain in one's eye. An open window, a forgotten quart of milk, a TV set left blaring, socks on the bathroom floor could become occasions for incredible rage.

She always had a headache, or it was too hot, always, or she pretended to be asleep, or she had her period again, her period, always her period. So much so that Dr. Urbino had dared to say in class, only for the relief of unburdening himself without confession, that after ten years of marriage women had their periods as often as threes times a week.

Man, it's hell to have a wife who thinks she can sing, and she can't.

I don't understand boys - just ask my husband.