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Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage QUOTES

Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage QUOTES

1 " You can either feed negative thoughts or you can starve the suckers. "

― Fawn Weaver , Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

2 " Sometimes your talent can steer you away from your passion. "

― Fawn Weaver , Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

3 " Happy marriages are alive and well. The cries of their demise have been highly overrated, and couples happily married do indeed exist. "

― Fawn Weaver , Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

4 " When you give a happy couple the opportunity to talk about what makes marriage great, it's like a water spigot you can't quite turn off. "

― Fawn Weaver , Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

5 " If you can figure out how to choose happiness in your marriage daily, and stop sweating the small stuff, it'll take ten years off your life. "

― Fawn Weaver , Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

6 " In that conversation with Richard, Kris did precisely what she'd done before offering her tennis quitting advice from years before. She paid attention. Instead of getting swept up in a reaction--regardless of how legitimate it would have been--she unseated herself and chose to focus on what Richard was saying. That kind of awareness is rare. It's rare in a person and even more so with a couple. "

― Fawn Weaver , Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

7 " Connection starves suspicion. "

― Fawn Weaver , Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

8 " Creating a happy marriage begins with choosing the right spouse. "

― Fawn Weaver , Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

9 " Bonnie and Jerry told me they never run away fro disagreements. They face each one head-on. "By holding it in, you'll begin to slowly form a negative opinion of each other," Bonnie reasoned, "which means you can't work out what the disagreement is. "

― Fawn Weaver , Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

10 " Those who don't take themselves too seriously have marriages that seem to just be better. "

― Fawn Weaver , Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

11 " Making love is not equivalent to love. But not making love is most certainly a waste. We didn't want to be wasteful. "

― Fawn Weaver , Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

12 " Every happily married person I interviewed on my trip was grateful for his or her spouse, thanking God daily for one another. "

― Fawn Weaver , Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

13 " Divorce was never a thought...A life together forever was our only plan. "

― Fawn Weaver , Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

14 " Early in our marriage, we knew that once the kids were gone, we would still be married and have to work on it. So, we decided to pay it forward. We worked in the first year like we wanted things to be in the fiftieth year. I'm so glad we did. "

― Fawn Weaver , Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

15 " I've known plenty of couples who choose to ignore budding problems or dissatisfactions because it's easier in the moment. But too much of that for long enough, and you all of a sudden have a huge problem on your hands, or a midlife crisis, or a broken marriage. "

― Fawn Weaver , Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

16 " Like most complicated things where it's easy to get derailed, their marriage was successful because they mastered the basics. From that mastery they could weather anything. "

― Fawn Weaver , Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

17 " Our world badly needs people who know how to listen. "

― Fawn Weaver , Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

18 " Love becomes marvelous,” he continued, “when you become content with what you have. "

― Fawn Weaver , Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

19 " Great marriages are made when husbands and wives don’t allow cultural expectations to dictate their life decisions or their day-to-day interactions. A one-of-a-kind value system is forged, blended "

― Fawn Weaver , Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

20 " He had backed her every dream, loved her every flaw, and seen their marriage as a story unfolding. "

― Fawn Weaver , Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage