Marriage Counseling Quotes

Comparing marriage to football is no insult. I come from the South where football is sacred. I would never belittle marriage by saying it is like soccer, bowling, or playing bridge, never. Those images would never work, only football is passionate enough to be compared to marriage. In other sports, players walk onto the field, in football they run onto the field, in high school ripping through some paper, in college (for those who are fortunate enough) they touch the rock and run down the hill onto the field in the middle of the band. In other sports, fans cheer, in football they scream. In other sports, players ‘high five’, in football they chest, smash shoulder pads, and pat your rear. Football is a passionate sport, and marriage is about passion.tIn football, two teams send players onto the field to determine which athletes will win and which will lose, in marriage two families send their representatives forward to see which family will survive and which family will be lost into oblivion with their traditions, patterns, and values lost and forgotten. Preparing for this struggle for survival, the bride and groom are each set up. Each has been led to believe that their family’s patterns are all ‘normal,’ and anyone who differs is dense, naïve, or stupid because, no matter what the issue, the way their family has always done it is the ‘right’ way. For the premarital bride and groom in their twenties, as soon as they say, “I do,” these ‘right’ ways of doing things are about to collide like two three hundred and fifty pound linemen at the hiking of the ball. From “I do” forward, if not before, every decision, every action, every goal will be like the line of scrimmage. Where will the family patterns collide?In the kitchen. Here the new couple will be faced with the difficult decision of “Where do the cereal bowls go?” Likely, one family’s is high, and the others is low. Where will they go now? In the bathroom. The bathroom is a battleground unmatched in the potential conflicts. Will the toilet paper roll over the top or underneath? Will the acceptable residing position for the lid be up or down? And, of course, what about the toothpaste? Squeeze it from the middle or the end? But the skirmishes don’t stop in the rooms of the house, they are not only locational they are seasonal. The classic battles come home for the holidays. Thanksgiving. Which family will they spend the noon meal with and which family, if close enough, will have to wait until the nighttime meal, or just dessert if at all? Christmas. Whose home will they visit first, if at all? How much money will they spend on gifts for his family? for hers? Then comes for many couples an even bigger challenge – children of their own! At the wedding, many couples take two candles and light just one often extinguishing their candle as a sign of devotion. The image is Biblical. The Bible is quoted a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one. What few prepare them for is the upcoming struggle, the conflict over the unanswered question: the two shall become one, but which one? Two families, two patterns, two ways of doing things, which family’s patterns will survive to play another day, in another generation, and which will be lost forever? Let the games begin.

David W. Jones

You'll marry your studies? Marry your books? You already have one degree but you want another. You'll marry your degrees?

Chinelo Okparanta

Relationship math suggests that It is rare for two people to enter marriage and one person is to blame for everything that goes wrong

Johnnie Dent Jr.

Children have rights outside their mother's womb without having to be victim's of Domestic Violence inside their mother's womb.

Sheree' Griffin

Religious guilt will never grow the kind of love you want in someone.

Shannon L. Alder

A kiss a day keeps your wife's wrath away.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It will always be foolish to ask a cheater if they would ever cheat on you.

Dennis Adonis

No Matter What, When, Where or Who … He is Forever My Daddy ~ MJ

Michael S. Joyner

Every friend, every neighbor, and every family member wishes that you retain your golden heart. No one wants to see your love sullied. Yet, they all know a dark circumstance will find you eventually. Know this: You are being hunted--like game. Life will knock you down with some unexpected misfortune. Resolve now, to help your partner get back up. Only a determined family kills its wounded. When everyone else abandons him, come back for your husband.pg 55

Michael Ben Zehabe

A man should not compete with his wife in talk but in silence

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Married life is not for the faint hearted. Sometimes it can look like an ugly battlefield

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Sometimes divorce is the best thing that can happen to marriage

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Before marriage a man prays that she accepts, after marriage a woman prays that he accepts

Bangambiki Habyarimana

I thought there was no use for me in reading Sun Tzu and Machiavelli because I am neither a warrior nor a politician, but it turned out to be useful when I married

Bangambiki Habyarimana

I came into marriage with love but when I got there she refused the dictatorship and fled away, I and my wife are looking for her. Anyone who finds her please contact us. We swear not to harm her again

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Nothing annoys in this world as a nagging wife

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Before marriage man prays that god give him a wife, after marriage he prays that god save him from her.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Wife: a former girlfriend

Bangambiki Habyarimana

You don't need a great cathedral for a great marriage. All you need is fate to be on your side

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Husband: a former boyfriend

Bangambiki Habyarimana

After a long time in laboratories, psychologists have discovered the holy grail of a happy marriage: I applied it and it didn't work

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Marriage is but a consolidation of resources

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Men are a compilation of every experience and relationship they have ever lived through. Some experiences have bettered your man while others have battered him. The man standing before you is the result of a lifetime of surviving.

Dave Samples

There are many types of marriage relationships and all of them can work, but none is sadder than the one that doesn't represent peace in your heart.

Shannon L. Alder

My wife does not need the whole country to play politics with. We are only the two of us at home but she plays the highest form of politics with me. That’s why I don't understand her ways. I think I need to do a bit of political science to understand her

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Don't constantly make angry your wife. Once she throws you out of her heart, there is no appeal

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Try to respond to your partner instead of reacting.

Abhijit Naskar

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

Abhijit Naskar

Compatibility doesn't determine the fate of a marriage, how you deal with the incompatibilities, does.

Abhijit Naskar

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