This is a huge thing if you are going to have a positive impact on your spouse. You have to not only realize this, but you have to practice this.

One [reality] is that I am responsible for my attitude. I can be in prison, and I happen to get a chance to go outside. I can look at the mud, or I can look at the stars. I am the one who decides which way to look. That is true for every one of us.

Another reality about relationships is that they are never static. All of us experience changes in relationships but a few stop to analyse why a relationship gets better or worse.

This is a huge thing if you are going to have a positive impact on your spouse. You have to not only realize this, but you have to practice this.

We are human, which means we have the potential to make things different.

I am not minimizing emotions. Emotions are an important part of life.

Physician Albert Scheweitzer said. " We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness." Professor Leo Buscaglia notes, "There seems to be accumulating evidence that there is actually an inborn need for this togetherness, this human interaction, this love. It seems that without these close ties with other human beings, a new born infant, for example, can regress developmentally, lose consciousness, fall into idiocy and die.