"Shela Dean's fun and wise book, Frequent Foreplay Miles, Your Ticket to Total Intimacy, provides a simple yet effective approach to giving the best of yourself to your partner every day. It's jam-packed with wonderful tips for bringing greater generosity, happiness and closeness to your relationship. Even the happiest couples will find nuggets of wisdom that will enrich their relationship."
Marci Shimoff, NY Times bestselling author
Happy for No Reason and Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul
Marriage Quotes
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, the grounds for marriage.
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together throughout the years.
Be presidents of each other's fan clubs.
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better that way.
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do?
What makes a relationship work is having things in common. What makes a relationship passionate are our differences.
A good marriage is a contest of generosity.
Real giving is when we give to our spouses what's important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not.
— Michele Weiner-Davis Divorce Busting
Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.
Love is no assignment for cowards.
The success of marriage comes not in finding the "right" person, but in the abililty of both partners to adjust to the real person they inevitably realize they married.
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.
I got gaps; you got gaps; we fill each other's gaps.
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
