The middle years of marriage are the most crucial. In the early years, spouses want each other and in late years, they need each other.

Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.

People think they have to find their soul mate to have a good marriage.
You’re not going to “find” your soul mate. Anyone you meet already has soul mates – their mother. Their father. Their lifelong friends. You get married, and after 20 years of loving, bearing and raising kids, meeting challenges – then you’ll “create” your soul mate.

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

In the opinion of the world, marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy.  The truth is precisely the opposite:  it begins all.  ~Anne Sophie Swetchine

Real giving is when we give to our spouses what’s important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not.