Marriage Relationship Quotes

“Later, as I attempted to lean over the high sides of the hospital
bed to kiss David, I couldn’t reach either his forehead or his lips, so
I began kissing the length of his arm.
“I love you,” I told him before I was ready to leave for the night.
His beautiful brown eyes locked with mine.
“Thank you,” he replied simply, grabbing hold of my hand with
his. I brought it to my lips in response.
Thank you, as if my love were a great gift to him, when all along
his love was the gift to me.”
― Mary Potter Kenyon, Chemo-Therapist: How Cancer Cured A Marriage

“For the majority of our marriage I was so busy mothering babies
and nursing on demand that by the end of the day I didn’t even want
to be touched by David. During those sleep-deprived months when
it was all I could do to get dressed by noon, reading articles about
rekindling the fire or dating your husband frustrated me; it was just
another chore on a huge to-do list that was never done.”
― Mary Potter Kenyon, Chemo-Therapist: How Cancer Cured A Marriage

“If their life together were a recipe, it would be this: tablespoons of late nights talking, a dash of fervent fingers across skin, and too many I love you's to count. Date nights and nights in and days spent in the sunshine or getting caught in the rain or sneaking cigarettes at family functions, and their wedding day. His homemade spaghetti sauce followed by her coffee cake. Their cat, Velcro. Their Greenwood home. Trust, laughter, tears, and pure joy, kneaded into one by years of togetherness.”
― Jennifer Gold, The Ingredients of Us