"To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with." –Mark Twain
"What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility." –Leo Tolstoy
"I got gaps. You got gaps. We fill each other's gaps." –Rocky Balboa
"When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand."
–Karl Menninger
"Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable."
–David Augsburger
"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
–Oscar Wilde
"If there's one lesson I've learned in my years of research into marital relationships–having interviewed and studied more than 200 couples over 20 years–it is that a lasting marriage results from a couple's ability to resolve the conflicts that are inevitable in any relationship."
–John Gottman
"What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility." –Leo Tolstoy
"I got gaps. You got gaps. We fill each other's gaps." –Rocky Balboa
"When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand."
–Karl Menninger
"Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable."
–David Augsburger
"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
–Oscar Wilde
"If there's one lesson I've learned in my years of research into marital relationships–having interviewed and studied more than 200 couples over 20 years–it is that a lasting marriage results from a couple's ability to resolve the conflicts that are inevitable in any relationship."
–John Gottman