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Quotes About Spouses

Unfortunately, the spouses of performers have a terrible, terrible life. They get shunted aside, pushed aside, ignored.
~ Dick Van Dyke
One of the most important thing in families, both for children and spouses, is never to close off possibilities - particularly never to make demands or threats.
~ Hazel Hawke
Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?
~ Joan Kirner
Democrats hate stay-at-home spouses, no matter what gender or gender preference.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
We often take our spouses so much for granted that we never let them know we appreciate them.
~ Dale Carnegie
Valentine's Day is when a lot of spouses are reminded what a poor shot Cupid really is.
~ Author Unknown
Some people see their spouses as separate from them,' Megan says. 'And some people see their spouses as an extension of them, and that informs their attitude and behavior.
~ Leah Stewart
Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances.
~ Maria Bartiromo
Marriage requires a radical commitment to love our spouses as they are, while longing for them to be what they are not yet. Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another's glory or toward degrading each other.
~ Dan B. Allender
Their is one advantage in a plurality of wifes; tha fite each other, insted ov their husbands.
~ Henry Wheeler Shaw
In order to undertake anything in family life, it is necessary that there be either complete discord between the spouses or loving harmony. But when the relations between spouses are uncertain and there is neither the one nor the other, nothing can be undertaken.
~ Leo Tolstoy
In order to undertake anything in family life, it is necessary that there be either complete discord between the spouses or loving harmony.
~ Leo Tolstoy
There remained only rare periods of amorousness that came over the spouses, but they did not last long. These were islands that they would land on temporarily, but then they would put out again to the sea of concealed enmity that expressed itself in estrangement from each other.
~ Leo Tolstoy
It was a popular theory at the time that death didn't automatically end a marriage because the spouses would eventually be reunited in heaven. The most pragmatic reason for the Church's view was that England was a land-based society and property was inherited upon the death of a spouse, so a remarriage threatened the inheritance of any issue from the previous union.
~ Leslie Carroll
And although in many cases these unions proved happy enough, sailors being excellent husbands, often away and handy about the house when ashore, it did make for a curious gathering when the spouses were invited to a ball.
~ Patrick O'Brian
wives had called. Cynde and Debbie had
~ David Baldacci
Why is it that govt employees makes the best spouses? Because afterthey come back from work, they are not tired and they already readthe newspapers.
~ Julian Assange
Though sooner or later all husbands resemble Drenka's Matija, do they not?
~ Philip Roth
There are events we can't control, but we believe we can. We waste time complaining about the weather, or futilely trying to control or manipulate spouses or employees or our children. Conversely, there are events we can control, but we believe we can't.
~ Hyrum W. Smith
Therefore, for needs to be met and mutual satisfaction to be achieved in any marriage, one element must be present in both spouses—a servant spirit.
~ Jimmy Evans
I can't understand people being rude to their spouses. Your husband or wife should be the one person in the world you treat with loving patience. He or she chose you above all others-for a lifetime! And yet I see women who are nicer to their girlfriends, and men who are more thoughtful toward their employees. That's meshuganeh. Friends come and go. Employees move on. Your partner is there for the long haul. He deserves your best every day of your life.
~ Joanna Campbell Slan
The second crazy wife. Was there any other kind?
~ Philip Roth
In contrast, "community property" states have no inheritance requirements for spouses. Instead, spouses are protected by the rule that each spouse owns one-half of all property acquired by either spouse during marriage. There are, of course, some exceptions. For example, property owned by one spouse before marriage and kept separate during the marriage remains the separate property of that spouse, as does property inherited by or gifted to one spouse.
~ Unknown
Another key finding is that in non-distressed families, the spouses do not reciprocate each others' negative behavior—only positive behavior. The same is true for parents and kids. You don't have to reciprocate your child's negative words and actions by doing likewise yourself. By not reacting, but leading, you will raise the positives in your home. You build an environment of grace.[72]
~ Unknown