Requests give direction to love, but demands stop the flow of love.

Many couples have never learned the tremendous power of verbally affirming each other.

Love is always freely given. Love cannot be demanded. We can request things of each other, but we must never demand anything. Requests give direction to love, but demands stop the flow of love.

..there is hope. That's the marvelous thing about being human. We can change our future. We need not be enslaved by the experiences of the past. We can learn to love even when we have not received love.

I cannot change others, but I can influence others... we can't change people, but we can and we do influence people, and we do it every single day.

The person who is "in-love" has the ilusion that his beloved is perfect.

People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship.