Quotes About Couples

Dr. Morris believes, and I strongly agree, that couples are most likely to bond securely when they have not rushed the dating experience. Time is the critical ingredient.

Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together.

And I am to smile benevolently at all these happy couples?

divorce was the chemotherapy of marriage, so expensive and toxic that only couples in extremis would attempt it as a cure. And if half of marriages were so cancerous that they justified treatment with the equivalent of chemotherapy, what did that say about the others? How many of the nondivorced had just learned to live with the illness because the cure seemed even worse than the disease?

Married people, for instance, are demonstrably happier than single people; does this mean that marriage causes happiness? Not necessarily. The data suggest that happy people are more likely to get married in the first place.

I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn.

We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure.

In an ideal world, you would have his-and-hers bathrooms and his-and-hers dressing rooms, complete with a single bed where the Mrs. need not be woken up when there's a 7 o'clock flight to catch.

Um grande obstáculo em um relacionamento de um casal é a fantasia da perfeição, a exigência de que o outro deve ser perfeito ou de que eu mesmo devo ser perfeito.

Adam probably regarded Eve as the woman of his choice, and exacted a certain gratitude for the distinction of his preference.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

The Beckhams are really inspiring and have very elegantly risen to being the most powerful brand in the country. I'm sure a lot of couples look at that and say, 'Wow.'

Aaron Beck, founder of cognitive behavioral therapy, maintains that people find it easy to notice what their partners do wrong, but not what they do right, so he suggests keeping "marriage diaries" to track partners' considerate behavior; one study showed that 70 percent of couples who did this tracking reported an improved relationship.

These couples ease into arguments instead of blowing up immediately—and avoid bombs such as "You never . . ." and "You always . . .

the marriage expert John Gottman calls the "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" for their destructive role in relationships: stonewalling, defensiveness, criticism, and contempt. Well

We will often talk to Liz Smith about couples and relationships because she always has an inside track, too.

I don't think a married couple can go through life without laughs together any more than they can without tears.

Akshay's idea of a romantic date is a six-kilometre jog, followed by 500 crunches... together! Eeeeks!

I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

It's up to couples, to individuals, to have a trust between each other.

The greater the trust within the couple, the greater the opening to share in love.

My dad has been married to his wife for 15 years and wherever he goes there better be a seat for her. I like real couples that tell you how to get through on Wednesdays when you're just at the end of your rope - the ones who really know how to make it through. We have to stop looking at Hollywood couples because you're going to get disappointed.

The percentage of couples who stay together after high school is, like, less than five percent, you guys.

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.