Safer to be feared than loved.

Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times

Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

My imagination is more tweaked by imagining the lives of the people who were there before us. I don't need to give myself the willies. I'm quite good at that - I can freak myself out wherever I am.

The question I've asked more often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I supposed these questions storm cloud over every marriage: What are you thinking how are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?

Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.

A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.