I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school...
There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty about that because I work.
I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it's a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your we...
If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.
Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.
The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.
You have to work for everything. Marriage should not be any different.
Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit.
When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.
It's so easy to grow apart; marriage takes work.
I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.
It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You've got to work on it.
I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all; it's very tough on him. From the outside it looks like it's all about me - I have a glorious career and he doesn't.
Determine that there will never be anything that will come between you that will disrupt your marriage. Make it work. Resolve to make it work.
The state's interest in marriage is stability. Generally speaking, polygamy does not work for stability. Inherent in the whole polygamous movement is a deep and abiding misogyny and denigration of women. So polygamy is objectionable on lots of ground...
I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.
I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.
I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that,...
Don't let your children take priority over your marriage and your work and everything else.
