Best 108 quotes in «spouse quotes» category

I can sense your love, why leave me in darkness? Beguile me for your amusement, stealing my soul without kisses. You are the sun and I, the moon. Your beauty is reflected in my eyes. When we are apart, I am extinguished in the blackness of these skies.

I don’t know why we fight. It takes much too effort to stay mad at you. To dodge your skin in the hallway and leave the kitchen without bringing you a treat. It takes much too effort to stare at the sink so my eyes don’t smile at you in the mirror. It takes much too effort to look away as we undress and lie apart in the now bigger bed. It takes much too effort to stiffen my body because sleepy limbs forget fights and pride is always lost in dreams. It takes much too effort to awaken every hour to make sure we are islands with a gulf of white sheets separating us. I dread the light peeking through the parted curtains and empathise with your groans — I didn’t get any sleep either. I really don’t know why we fight. It takes much too effort to stay mad at one another when it’s so easy for us to love.

I fell in love and then I became love.

If your spouse wants to cheat on you, he or she will. This world is a haven of opportunities. But no matter what, in any relationship, one must never doubt the spouse

If you sweep a woman off of her feet, make sure your character is strong enough to keep her in the air.

In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.

I realized, it is not the time that heals, but what we do within that time that creates positive change.

I still believed he'd love me again somehow, love me that intense, thick way he did, the way that made everything good.

If love weighs you down and casts a shadow on your life then it isn’t love. Love is light and makes you light.

It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.

It's hard to say which I like more, the perfectly happy days or the hours right after we've ended a good fight.

It seemed to her everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip off down to their souls in front of their long-term partners. It was easier to pretend there was nothing more to know, to fall into an easygoing companionship. It was almost embarrassing to be truly intimate with your spouse; because how could you watch someone floss one minute, and the next minute share your deepest passion or tritest of fears? It was almost easier to talk about that sort of thing before you’d shared a bathroom and a bank account and argued over the packing of the dishwasher.

I used to be lost in us. Blurred were the lines that separated us. But now, I see our togetherness in our separateness. I see the you in me and the me in you. We are two independent beings who complement one another like photographs that are beautiful on their own but are enhanced when juxtaposed, creating an altogether new photograph.

Many a woman is in a relationship with or married to her man not because she loves him but only because she likes men like him.

Listening to your wife is intelligence; hearing every word she doesn't say is wisdom.

Love, they said, burns you and builds you. But with you, there’s no ash. Just light.

Marriage is a full time job; a good one comes with full benefits.

Marriage is not a competition. Marriage is completion of two souls.

My spouse is my shield, my spouse is my strength.

My wife divorced me because she could not trust me anymore. I never want a divorce because I love and care about our daughter.

Sexy is a decision. We decide that our spouse looks sexy to us. Period. It doesn’t matter our age or how long we’ve been together.

Some people each left their spouse or lover because he or she was no longer the primary source of their happiness; some, because their spouse or lover was, at that time, the primary source of their unhappiness.

Some people would have killed themselves and/or someone else if they were single; and some people would not have done that.

Some people will hate you for not loving them.

In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.

Monogamy is not a choice, it is a responsibility of a genuine human.

Most men do not have the balls to help their women to not need them.

Most people who are would each not be in love with their partner, if they did not have the kind of genitals they have.

My mother-in-law belongs in Hell, but the devil is afraid she’ll end up taking over.

Some people would not have remained with their partners, if the unfortunate things that have happened to them had happened to their partners, or if the fortunate things that have happened to their partners had happened to them.

Some survivors can be wary of most people, yet blinded by compassion toward fellow survivors or others who suffer — or who pretend to suffer, or exaggerate their sufferings, in order to take advantage of the survivor. Some survivors overidentify with other survivors, not realizing that even if someone was traumatized or suffers in a similar way, it doesn’t necessarily mean that person is honest. Being either overly suspicious or overly trusting can create problems with a partner who is able to judge the sincerity of others more realistically.

Take me when I'm wild. Take me when I'm free. Take me for me and I will take you as you want to be.

The distance between you and the door when you have had enough of your spouse is love.

The best thing that ever happened to you might be your new job, spouse, awards, etc, but I tell you that being granted to live in order to enjoy these things are wonderful privileges most people can't get.

The fact that you do not trust your spouse or lover doesn’t necessarily mean that they are cheating on you; and the fact that you do doesn’t necessarily mean that they aren’t.

The loneliest thing in the world is lying awake beside someone asleep. ~ "The November Story

The more important factors are a man’s perseverance, his ability to innovate and think of new ideas, to be willing to adapt to changing conditions, to push almost tirelessly at a task or several at a time, during the difficult seasons as well as the prosperous. Certainly a man may be all these on his own, and succeed, wife or no – but to have a wife who possessed these qualities, who could bring out in her husband such steadiness and strength of character by her example and unyielding affection… The worth of such a wife is immeasurable. - James Laurence to his grandson, Laurie

The number of marriages that were torn apart by prostitution is almost equal to that of those that it is keeping together.

The only path wide for us all is love.

The world’s most lethal venom is not found on the tongues of serpents, but on the tongues of a disgruntled wife.

To ask a man whether or not he has a girlfriend is to talk about his sex life. If you disagree with that, then how in the name of God do you differentiate between a man’s girlfriend and a girl that is a friend to the man?

To commit to loving a person for five minutes is easy. To commit to loving a person for the rest of your life, after you have met them, is a strong commitment. But when you commit to loving a person before you meet them and for the rest of your life, you have made the strongest commitment one can make to a relationship.

Treat marriage like a diamond necklace; if broken, fix it, but do not throw it away.

That which you love most will then become both your strength and your weakness.

There are many fish in the sea, but never let a good one swim away.

There are no speed limits on the road to love; that is why some arrive instantly.

There is nothing better for your family than for you to be at your best, for you to be at your own peace, for you to be showing them in every way who you are, and what you stand for.

There is so much more to marriage than who makes the money. Some of the hardest parts don't come with a paycheck.

There was a certain usefulness in having a husband whom most people could barely tolerate: it deflected envy, for one thing.

There was no jealousy on the part of a new spouse over the love or affection a man or woman shared with a former spouse. It was considered a blessing to have had such loves in one's life.