Conflicts are not a sign you've married the wrong person. They simply affirm you are human.

Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.

Over the long haul, many of those people [in a difficult marriage] will begin to reciprocate, because you are meeting a basic need in their life, the need for love, and they know they don't deserve love many times.

Isolation is devastating to the human psyche.

I am amazed by how many individuals mess up every new day with yesterday.

The pattern often has been entrenched since childhood... [abusive people] don't think that there is anything wrong with them because that is the way they were brought up in their family.

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.