I think the tingles are important. They are real, and I am in favor of their survival. But they are not the basis for a satisfactory marriage. I am not suggesting that on should marry without the ting...
People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relations...
A gentle answer turns away wrath.
The decision to get married will impact one's life more deeply than almost any decision in life. Yet people continue to rush into marriage with little or no preparation for making a marriage successfu...
Often we fail to consider the fact that our social, spiritual, and intellectual interests are miles apart. Our value systems and goals are contradictory, but we are in love.
People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.
Genuine forgiveness and reconciliation are two-person transactions that are enabled by apologies. Some, particularly within the Christian worldview, have taught forgiveness without an apology. They of...
Love doesn't erase the past, but it makes the future different.
We are trained to analyze problems and create solutions. We forget that marriage is a relationship, not a project to be completed or a problem to solve.
The best way to predict future is to create it. Abraham Lincoln
Gifts are visual symbols of love.
Inside every child is an ‘emotional tank’ waiting to be filled with love.
True love cannot begin until the in-love experience has run its course.
Love hugging and kissing my wife after we’ve been apart for a while.
Love is always a choice.
Dr. Dorothy Tennov, a psychologist, has done long-range studies on the in-love phenomenon. After studying scores of couples, she concluded that the average life span of a romantic obsession is two yea...
There is a third truth, which only the mature lover will be able to hear. My spouse’s criticisms about my behavior provide me with the clearest clue to her primary love language.
The choice to love is the choice to take initiative. It is the choice to do or say something for the other person’s benefit, something that would help make them a better person, something that would e...
Most of us have more potential than we will ever develop. What holds us back is often a lack of courage.
Love is something you do for someone else, not something you do for yourself.
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