Quotes About Partnership

In all marriages there is struggle and ours was no different in that regard. But we always came to the other shore, dusted off and said, 'There you are, my love.

The one to tell. The one to be told by. For him, that was marriage.

I'm just saying I think people are meant to be with people. You suffer in a marriage; but alone, you suffer more. Did you ever read that Mark Twain book Extracts from Adam's Diary? Adam thought Eve was a real pain in the ass, talking too much, looking at her reflection in the pond all the time, getting them expelled from Paradise, for Christ's sake! But what he said at the end was that he was better off living outside the Garden with Eve than inside it without her.

Marriage is more than finding the right person…it is being the right person!

Your assignment from God is not to change your husband, but to love, follow, assist, and minister to him.

Your ultimate goal for marriage is that both of you—as husband and wife—commit to keep growing spiritually.

Your assignment from God is not to change your spouse, but to love, follow, assist, and minister to them.

There is no substitute for the strength that blesses a couple when they work together.

Every day ask your husband two questions: "What can I do for you today?" and "What can I do to help you make better use of your time today?

Parenting is a partnership. Loving each other has a big impact on your children.

The husband leads, loves, and works hard to provide, while the wife follows, loves, helps, and appreciates his efforts.

You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget.

Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody—so utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air?

There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.

It may be that same-sex couples will save the institution of marriage.

There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.

It all comes down to one simple question: Do you want your belly pressed against this person's belly forever--or not?

This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. This, in part, is how we become annexes of each other, trellises on which each other's biography can grow.

The emotional place where a marriage begins is not nearly as important as the emotional place where a marriage finds itself toward the end, after many years of partnership.

For the first time in my life, it occurred to me that perhaps I was asking too much of love. Or, at least, perhaps I was asking too much of marriage. Perhaps I was loading a far heavier cargo of expectation onto the creaky old boat of matrimony than that strange vessel had ever been built to accommodate in the first place.

You can believe that you are neither a slave to inspiration nor its master, but something far more interesting—its partner—and that the two of you are working together toward something intriguing and worthwhile.

I don't think that marriage means to suffer endlessly, in order to prove that you can honor a commitment. I don't think marriage is supposed to be an endurance contest.

I encourage makers to recognize that when you pull your ego out of the game, your work can become a series of joyful collaborations (between artist and mystery, between artist and peers, between artist and audience). The important thing is to take responsibility for continuing to show up for your side of the bargain.

You didn't show up ready enough, or fast enough, or openly enough for the idea to take hold within you and complete itself. Therefore, the idea went hunting for a new partner, and somebody else got to make the thing.