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“I have learned that I like to get things done, even if they are a compromise. My husband will endure a lot of hardship for the result he wants. One way of saying this is that I am sloppy and he is rigorous. Another is that I am realistic and he is insane. Understanding that doesn’t only mean that we have a decoder key for some of each other’s behaviors, it means we’ve got a decoder key for ourselves.”
― Belinda Luscombe, Marriageology: The Art and Science of Staying Together

“If he peeled back her pretty skin he'd find nothing soft or sweet at all. Just busted glass and ashes and the desperate, animal will to stay alive.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

“Doing the next right thing is good advice, but it didn’t sink in for me fully until I started noticing it in the Gospels. So often, right after Jesus performed a miracle, he gave a simple next thing to do.”
― Emily P. Freeman, The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions

“The trick with constructive fighting, then, is to remember that we have to be able to rumble while doing our best to keep the other person feeling safe.”
― Belinda Luscombe, Marriageology: The Art and Science of Staying Together