Forgiving

People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right. - J. K. Rowling

  Don't gloat; it makes forgiveness even more difficult.

True Affection

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect. - Kathryn L. Nelson

Speechless

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. - Ingrid Bergman


It's not a good idea to tell your spouse that a kiss is a trick.

Going Out

A husband is like a fire, he goes out when unattended. - Evan Esar


Wives too.

Lack of Self

Immature love is a symptom of too little self. An emotionally immature person doesn’t feel comfortable and secure enough with him or her self to go through life without a romantic partner. He needs a romantic partner to “complete” his self. If the romantic partner pulls or grows away from him, he becomes threatened and lashes out in some way. This is what’s going on in cases of physical or verbal abuse. Physical and verbal abuse are tactics of intimidation. The person who victimizes his “loved one” with these tactics is not being “selfish.” Quite the opposite: he’s exhibiting a lack of self. - Michael J. Hurd

..... Worth contemplating.

The Marriage Gamble

Marriage is a safe way to gamble--if you win, you win a pile, and if you lose, you don't lose anything, only the privilege of living dismally alone, and soaking your own feet. - Josh Billings

..... Don't fall into that old trap of imagining what you don't have is better than what you have.

A Simple Pleasure

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh


Don't just take time; make time.

Be There

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. - Victor Borge

  Be it be spouse or customer.

Small Faults

To remove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead. - Unknown


Smile at your spouse's small faults.

Valentines Day

If the universe has any purpose more important then topping a woman you love and making a baby with her hearty help, I have never heard of it. -  Robert A. Heinlein

The reason so many people are born in November.

Priorities

The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes. - Harold B. Lee


Prioritize.

Nutrition Event

The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event... The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us... a capacity for sharing, generosity, thoughtfulness, a talent for civilized conversation. - Francine Du Plessix Gray


Only if the TV is shut off.

Toothpaste Once Again

There should be no yelling in the home unless there is a fire. - David Oman McKay


In the end it really doesn't matter which end of the toothpaste tube is squeezed.


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My Dreams

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,

Enwrought with golden and silver light,

The blue and the dim and the dark cloths

Of night and light and the half light,

I would spread the cloths under your feet:

But I, being poor, have only my dreams;

I have spread my dreams under your feet;

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

- William Butler Yeats

We all enter marriage poor.

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The Prize

Great sex is the prize, not the substance of a good marriage. - Dr. Laura Schlessinger


Forest Gump would have been more precise had he said "Life is like a box of "Cracker Jacks."


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Good Partners

A good horse and a good rider are only so in mutual trust. - H.M.E


Same with an employer and employee, marriage, or any other partnership.


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Reflections

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


And it is easy to tell which ones get the best care.


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Security Now

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh


Remember that both are responsible for making the relationship what it is now and that each has different needs.


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Rugged and Fragile Friendships

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh 


Think about this relative to male/female relationships. Obviously some tolerance is in order on both sides.


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Do Not Quarrel

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. - Abraham Lincoln 


Or the most of his marriage.


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