Quotes About Partnership

In both relationships, there were only two people: one who gave and one who sacrificed

Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have done both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out the balance.

Your mama finds you like that, she's going to pitch a fit. The only way she'd find out is if you told her I'd come out here with you, and then she'd be too angry at you to yell at me. Guess we're partners in crime, then.

I learned the hard way that you shouldn't stay with someone because of your past together—what matters more is if you want the same things in the future.

It's an odd luxury, knowing someone's got my back.

Then you're the one. Allie blinked at him. The one what? The one who loves more. ... You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone always puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

weight. "I'm in," she called back to Reid.

What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?

Puritan Thomas Gataker (1574–1654) said, "There is no society [relationship][3] more near, more entire, more needful, more kindly, more delightful, more comfortable, more constant, more continual, than the society of man and wife."[4] By the grace of God, such friendship between husbands and wives is possible and practical and should be our priority.

Your spouse must become your best friend.

It's not automatic that when you marry, your spouse will be your best friend; it's something you have to work towards.

Draw closer to your spouse. Ask them questions. Open up to them. Involve them in every decision you make to make them your best friend.

Play with your wife. Laugh with your husband. Go out together. Stand together in prayer. Yearn to be each other's best friend in marriage.

Never ignore and undermine the opportunity to make your spouse your best friend. It's an opportunity of a lifetime reward. Take it.

Every successful marriage needs friendship to work effectively; without it, it will become hell on earth.

Friendship brings out the best in marriage.

All lasting and successful marriages are the result of enduring friendship.

The only relationship that gives the fullest expression of friendship is marriage.

See your spouse as your best friend, not only a wife or a husband.

It's not automatic to have a successful friendship in marriage; it's decisive and intentional.

Marriage is a lifetime opportunity to have your spouse as your lifetime best friend.

Marriage is not the full-stop of friendship.

The best relationship for the full consummation of friendship is marriage.

Make your spouse your best friend. This won't happen overnight; it takes hard work.