When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.
I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.
My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American.
Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.
My wife and I have what's known as mixed marriage. I am a Methodist, she is a Muslim. So we're keeping it in the M's.
I have nothing against her, and in fact I'm very fond of my first wife. But we should have ended that marriage eight or 10 years earlier.
I was made to believe there was a plan in place for ending Donald's previous marriage. I pulled away because I wanted to allow him the time to deal with his wife.
There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.
In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents.
When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
Tom: You don't want to be named as anybody's girlfriend, and now you're someone's wife?
Sheik Ilderim: One God, that I can understand; but one wife? That is not civilized. [nudges Judah] Sheik Ilderim: It is not generous!
I'm not much for setup... punch line. I talk about my kids. I talk about my wife.
I wish I had been a better mother and a more compassionate and understanding wife in both of my marriages.
I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.
Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in my bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later.
