I don't want to be identified by any one role I do.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt.
I believe we're going to find that respect and affection are essential to all relationships working and contempt destroys them.
In order to get to a healthier and more productive place, we need to give up our fear of conflict, turmoil and resistance.
Marriages are much more likely to succeed when the couple experiences a 5 to 1 ratio of positive to negative interactions whereas when the ratio approaches 1 to 1, marriages are more likely to end in divorce.
Admit when you're wrong. Shut up when you're right.
In a good relationship, people get angry, but in a very different way. The Marriage Masters see a problem a bit like a soccer ball. They kick it around. It's 'our' problem.
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport. " Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the only exception of this otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs.
I idolized my mother. I didn't realize she was a lousy cook until I went into the army.
We are all potential murderers, and we are all potential rapists and abusers.
Enthusiasm signifies God in us.