Quotes on Unhappy Marriage

If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win.

Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both.

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

Nothing can cost you someone you love. The only thing that can cost you your husband is if you believe a thought. That's how you move away from him. That's how the marriage ends. You are one with your husband until you believe the thought that he should look a certain way, he should give you something, he should be something other than what he is. That's how you divorce him. Right then and there you have lost your marriage.

If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all.

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.