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Quotes About Spouses

All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
~ Ian Dunbar
Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
~ Patricia Schroeder
Digital intimacy ruins the appetite for the real thing. So, when kids are gaming or even when spouses are gaming, they lose their appetite for genuine intimacy. Kids lose their appetite for getting their intimacy needs, their hunger for significance and attachment, with the family, and it erodes the relationship between them and their parents.
~ Gordon Neufeld
Many new lovers and spouses struggle to reconcile themselves with their partners' relationship history, but it's an insecurity I left behind in my 20s.
~ Mariella Frostrup
Chemotherapy can be a long, tough haul - for me, it went on for six months - and the best doctors and nurses become, if only for that period of time, as essential in your life as friends or spouses.
~ Julia Glass
The goal of immigration policy should be what is in the best interests of the American people as a whole. I would recommend limiting immigration to spouses and minor children of citizens, plus additional immigrants chosen for special skills needed in the U.S.
~ Jan C. Ting
Sometimes new spouses don't fully process the commitment they've made until after the deal is done, and then they panic.
~ Emily V. Gordon
As the proud home of Fort Drum and the Navy Nuclear Site at Kesselring, our district is home to countless military spouses who make enormous sacrifices on behalf of our nation.
~ Elise Stefanik
As military spouses move from state to state with their servicemember on military orders, it is important that we do what is necessary to make sure they have the opportunity to maintain their hard-earned professional licensing and certification.
~ Elise Stefanik
What Republicans so cynically refer to as 'chain migration' is actually family-based immigration - a humane and compassionate policy of reunifying families. It allows spouses to be together, siblings to support each other, and children to be with their parents. It allows the immigrants who are already here to be successful.
~ Pramila Jayapal
Constant rotation, based on a 19th century Army model, prevents spouses from putting down roots and gaining meaningful deployment.
~ Robert Wilkie
What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as important as the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels, broadband, parks and public works.
~ Anne-Marie Slaughter
People feel better when their spouses have good friendships, over and above the effects of their own friendships.
~ Stephanie Coontz
'Daughters of Britannia' is a fascinating book, not least because it shines a light on a very dark corner of Foreign Office dealings. Diplomatic spouses are the Aunt Sallys of the foreign service: responsible for nearly everything, recognised for almost nothing.
~ Amanda Foreman
I did not know that if a member of a family serves, the whole family serves. I did not know that the spouses of our service members carry such a heavy load.
~ Mary Gauthier
Cabinet spouses are not allowed to lobby other Cabinet members. It's against the rules.
~ Louise Linton
Maybe I'll create a guidebook for future political spouses: the dos and don'ts in D.C.
~ Louise Linton
We must never forget or overlook the incredible sacrifice of military families, especially military spouses. These families uproot their lives in service to our nation and help preserve the freedoms we know and love.
~ Madison Cawthorn
Most employers see breaks in employment as a blemish on a resume. In the case of military spouses, however, it's due to their frequent moves.
~ Brianna Keilar
I always thought that owing to their social standing, army spouses had to maintain a dignified appearance, no matter what, at all times and that their only source of entertainment was the officers' parties.
~ Pranitha Subhash
A national standard for recognizing the occupational licenses of military spouses across state lines would have many potential benefits. It would help improve military family life, add to the economy, and, importantly, allow a military spouse to fulfill their career goals.
~ Cindy Hyde-Smith
Your employer is the last person you should want to provide for your healthcare, from a privacy, financial, and value standpoint. Employees with families should get the family, meaning spouses and children, off the company plan. In most cases, that will save them money.
~ Paul Zane Pilzer
Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses - the louses.
~ Yvonne De Carlo
In my version neither story would get off the ground because all the spouses involved in both stories would honor their partners and remain faithful. Both 'Patient' and "Piano' glorify and romanticize adultery; and that only works in fiction when it's the female who's cuckolding the male. If a story shows a man cheating on his wife… well, that's never a cultural masterpiece, is it?
~ Chuck Palahniuk