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.

I think people desperately want to feel 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.

On the other hand, if I walk in the house, I don't even bother to find her, I just walk in the den and flip on the TV, get myself something to drink, sit down, start unwinding, I have influenced my wife in a very negative way.

A soft answer turns away anger.

What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.

I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn't make another person feel loved.