Professional Documents
Culture Documents
1. Great relationships don’t just happen; they are created. You have to work at it
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2. If your job takes all of your best energy, your marriage will suffer.
3. One of the greatest gifts you can give your spouse is your own happiness.
5. When you complain about your spouse to your friends (which you shouldn’t), reme
mber that their feedback can be distorted.
6. The only rules in your marriage are those you both choose to agree with.
8. It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you do with what you have.
9. If you think you are too good for your spouse, think again.
10. Growing up in a happy household doesn’t ensure a happy marriage, or vice versa
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12. The real issue is usually not the one you are arguing about.
13. Love isn’t just a feeling; it is expressed through our actions.
16. One of the greatest gifts you can give your spouse is focused attention.
17. Even people with happy marriages sometimes worry that they married the wrong
person.
18. Your spouse cannot rescue you from unhappiness, but they can help you rescue
yourself.
19. The cost of a lie is far greater than any advantage you gain from speaking i
t.
24. If you think, “You are not the person I married,” you are probably right.
25. Resisting the temptation to prove your point will win you a lot of points.
27. If your spouse is being defensive, you might be giving them reasons to be li
ke that.
29. You can pay now or pay later, but the later you pay, the more interest and p
enalties you acquire.
30. Marriage requires sacrifice, but your benefits outweigh your costs.
32. Accepting the challenges of marriage will shape you into a better person.
33. Creating a marriage is like launching a rocket: once it clears the pull of g
ravity, it takes much less energy to sustain the flight.
34. A successful marriage has more to do with how you deal with your current rea
lity than with what you’ve experienced in the past.
37. One of the greatest questions to ask your spouse is “How best can I love you?”
39. Assumptions are fine as long as you check them before acting upon them.
40. Intention may not be the only thing, but it is the most important thing.
41. Good sex won’t make your marriage, but it’ll help.
42. Privacy won’t hurt your marriage, but secrecy will.
43. Possessiveness and jealousy are born out of fear, not love.
49. It’s better to focus on what you can do to make things right, then what your p
artner did to make things wrong.