Quotes About Partnership

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

There are two types of men in this world--one is looking for a woman to make his life complete and the other is looking for a woman to join his complete life.

In a sense it's a one-man show... except there are two men involved, Hartson and Berkovic, and a third man, the goalkeeper.

2. As long as at least one partner is in the adult functional at any given time, most—if not all—arguments can be avoided.

And I already like Nicole enough to hope she'll consider being my consensually nonmonogamous polyamorous pluralistic multiple-relating primary partner.

Comrades In Arms.

It's not unusual to assign a husband and wife together when possible.

Marriage is the ultimate solitude with minimal privacy.

Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment, and you have to think not only about what you want, but about what he wants. Not just now, but in the future.

Making love, she'd always believed, was more than simply a pleasurable act between two people. It encompassed all that a couple was supposed to share: trust & commitment, hopes & dreams, a promise to make it through whatever the future might bring.

Marriage, each of them realized intuitively, was about compromise and forgiveness. It was about balance, where one person complemented the other.

Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.

Relationship is about forgiveness and compromise. It is about balance where one person complements each other.

Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.

The only thing I do know for sure is that if we both want to, we'll find a way to make it work.

Good and bad, strengths and faults, he was hers forever.

in all the years we spend together, I never once regretted the fact that I had chosen her and that she had chosen me as well.

I'd like to marry you, if you think that would be okay.

we shared the longest ride together, this thing called life

A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.

Then we'll find a way to work through all this together because I know I want to spend the rest of my life with you.

Commitment, I finally said. Both people have to be committed. I think if two people are committed to the marriage, if they really want to make it work, then they'll find a way to do it. No matter what happens in life.

marriage is about becoming a team. You're going to spend the rest of your life learning about each other, and every now and then, things blow up. But the beauty of marriage is that if you picked the right person and you both love each other, you'll always figure out a way to get through it

One of my father's Rules for Life was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. "I did this," he would say to me, "and you should do it, too. I say, why do all the thinking?