Quotes About Marriage

We no longer enjoy being with each other. We don't meet each other's needs." Their stories bear testimony that adults as well as children have "love tanks.

Feeling loved by a spouse enhances our sense of significance. We reason, If someone loves me, I must have significance.

She said I was crazy. She said I did not understand the stress of being a twenty-four-hour nurse. She said I should be more understanding and help her more. I really tried, but it didn't seem to make any difference. After that, we just grew further apart. After a while, there was no love left, just deadness. Both of us agreed that the marriage was over.

Learning the love language of acts of service will require some of us to reexamine our stereotypes of the roles of husbands and wives.

It also should not be assumed that a marital crisis—the kind where one or both partners feel as if they "can't take it anymore" and seriously consider splitting up—inevitably leads to divorce.

After the wedding, I don't think I changed. I continued to express love to her as I had before marriage. I told her how beautiful she was. I told her how much I loved her. I told her how proud I was to be her husband.

We can recognize the in-love experience for what it was—a temporary emotional high—and now pursue "real love" with our spouse. That kind of love is emotional in nature but not obsessional. It is a love that unites reason and emotion. It involves an act of the will and requires discipline, and it recognizes the need for personal growth.

And where do we find time for such activities, especially if both of us have vocations outside the home? We make time, just as we make time for lunch and dinner. Why? Because it is just as essential to our marriage as meals are to our health. Is it difficult? Does it take careful planning? Yes.

That leads me to the second truth: Love is a choice and cannot be coerced. Dave and Mary were criticizing each other's behavior and getting nowhere. Once they decided to make requests of each other rather than demands, their marriage began to turn around

One of the most important things you can do for your children is to love and serve your spouse. Nothing creates a more secure environment for children than seeing Mom and Dad loving each other. And nothing else cements your marriage relationship quite so well.

Si decidimos amar, expresémoslo de la manera en que las peticiones de nuestro cónyuge hagan que nuestro amor sea más eficaz en lo emocional.

I am convinced that keeping the emotional love tank full is as important to a marriage as maintaining the proper oil level is to an automobile. Running your marriage on an empty "love tank" may cost you even more than trying to drive your car without oil.

Negative feelings are more often alleviated when they are ignored rather than pampered. When you act positively in spite of negative emotions, it tends to change the emotional climate between husband and wife.

18 Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting for those who belong to the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives and never treat them harshly.

Love makes requests, not demands. When I demand things from my spouse, I become a parent and she the child.

He was a sincere husband who failed to understand the tremendous power of presence. His being there for his wife was more important than anything else in her mind. Physical presence in the time of crisis is the most powerful gift you can give if your spouse's primary love language is receiving gifts. Your body becomes the symbol of your love. Remove the symbol, and the sense of love evaporates.

The emotional need for love must be met if we are to have emotional health. Married adults long to feel affection and love from their spouses. We feel secure when we are assured that our mate accepts us, wants us, and is committed to our well-being. During the "in-love" stage, we felt all of those emotions. It was heavenly while it lasted. Our mistake was in thinking it would last forever.

What good is the house, the cars, the place at the beach, or any of the rest of it if your wife doesn't love you?

Love is the attitude that says, "I am married to you, and I choose to look out for your interests." Then the one who chooses to love will find appropriate ways to express that decision.

those who don't divorce, do they learn to live with the emptiness, or does love really stay alive in some marriages?

You can give your marriage new life when you replace condemnation and criticism with compliments and words of affirmation.

I examined the cultural patterns surrounding love and marriage and found that in every culture I studied, gift giving was a part of the love - marriage process.

The emotional need for love, however, is not simply a childhood phenomenon. That need follows us into adulthood and into marriage. The

Cuando me siento con mi esposa y le presto veinte minutos de toda mi atención y ella hace lo mismo para mí, nos damos veinte minutos de vida. Nunca más tendremos esos veinte minutos; nos damos nuestras vidas el uno al otro. Esto es un poderoso comunicador emocional de amor.