Relationship Education Quotes

Why do so many marriages fail? Because nobody gets taught how to be married. We're not taught how to pick a mate, or why to pick a mate; we don't know how to manage our emotions once we're in a marriage; we don't know how to resolve marital conflict. Married people have never been taught why they or their spouses feel the way they do and act the way they do. Nobody has ever taught us the fundamentals.

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

We accept the need to train extensively to fly a plane; but think instinct should be enough for marrying and raising kids.

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.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Marriage is a school of learning.

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.

In all actuality, we got to do better about preparing our men for their interactions with women.

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.'

I think I'd concentrate on young women - particularly girls at school - and I would try and build into school curriculums much more education about relationships and how girls (and boys) can handle them: stuff about consent and that sort of thing.

I want people to not be embarrassed going through breakups and divorces, to know what to do before they get involved in a relationship.

I had learned so much about marriage from Missy that I only had to get divorced two more times.

Sex role training becomes divorce training.

We teach teen-agers what to do in the front seat of cars, and now should teach them what to do in the back seats.