“Women are unhappy in their marriages because they want men to be more related than most men know how to be. And men are unhappy in their marriages because their women seem so unhappy with them.”

“...strength is not the absence of vulnerability. Strength is knowing what your weaknesses are and working with them.”

“...changing one's own behavior is a much more promising strategy than insisting on change from the other.”

“We are so busy attempting to manage the result that we fail simply to run the race.”

“Revenge is really a perverse form of communication, a twisted attempt at repair.”

“Learning to listen relationally, listen with cool heads and clear boundaries, listen with the quietness of the heart and the gentleness of the body, means having a self so developed it can afford t...”

“If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way with...”

“When we are at peace within our marriage, the effects can be astounding! We will raise happier children, become better employees, and overall find the joy in life.”

“Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.”