Quotations -- Page 7

1. Marriage isn't a thing to jump into without planning. It's a lifetime commitment, (or should be).

It's finding out what your likes and dislikes are and what each feels about money and children.

How do the in-laws treat the other, do your values and religion match?

2.  If you go into a marriage thinking of what you're going to get out of it, as opposed to what you are going to put in it. You're setting yourself up for failure. 

1. This is more of the same. A marriage doesn't just happen. Those first honeymoon days soon turn into everydays, but are none the less precious when you are working together to make a happy home. 

Doing the little things that make another happy, remembering why you married in the first place, not letting something or somebody else get in the way, these will help a marriage last. 

1. One of the things I've learned in my 37 years of marriage is that starting silly quarrels over presumed slights, doesn't get you anywhere except everyone feels bad. Most of the time, those sorts of things aren't intentional. They are triggered by some past experience and the best thing you can do is swallow your pride and not matter who started it, apologize.

2. In my case it was 2-cylinder John Deere tractors, (pun intended.)

1. That's right up there with sharing the same value system.

2. I goofed up on this one, I wonder what book I found it in. It doesn't ring a bell. 

It seems like there is always one in a family (not always the same one) that doesn't want to do what everyone else wants to do. Sometimes you have to just fit in.

3. Never teaching a child to control oneself and behave sets that child up for failure in life.