Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside. — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
The more things we can laugh about, the more alive we become: The more things we can laugh about together, the more… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must be total, it must be permanent, and it must… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy - it's supposed to make you married. — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages. — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Love is not something people feel, but something people try to express no matter how they feel. — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
. . . in the end, there is nothing a man can do that a woman can't, except be a father. — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages. — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
For most people, a life lived alone, with passing strangers or passing lovers, is incoherent and ultimately unbearable. Someone must be there… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens. — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Infidelity flows from a belief that women have the power to make you feel like a man if you only find a… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Common courtesy plays a big role in happy marriages. People who are permanently married are polite to one another. They don't want… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
It is necessary but insufficient to stay married for the children's sake. It is also necessary to stay happily married for the… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
In colonial America, the father was the primary parent. . . . Over the past two hundred years, each generation of fathers has hadless… — Frank Pittman Copy Share
We long for our father. We wear his clothes, and actually try to fill his shoes. . . . We hang on to him,… — Frank Pittman Copy Share
Our ability to fall in love requires enough comfort with our masculinity to join it with someone's femininity and feel enhanced. .. . If… — Frank Pittman Copy Share
The mother must teach her son how to respect and follow the rules. She must teach him how to compete successfully with the other… — Frank Pittman Copy Share
Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with a couple… — Frank Pittman Copy Share
Every boy was supposed to come into the world equipped with a father whose prime function was to be our father and show us… — Frank Pittman Copy Share
At the heart of male bonding is this experience of boys in early puberty: they know they must break free from their mothers and… — Frank Pittman Copy Share
We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our… — Frank Pittman Copy Share
Mothers who are strong people, who can pursue a life of their own when it is time to let their children go, empower their… — Frank Pittman Copy Share
Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages. — Frank Pittman Copy Share
Some parents were awful back then and are awful still. The process of raising you didn't turn them into grown-ups. Parents who were clearly… — Frank Pittman Copy Share
To insult a friend implies that you respect his masculinity enough to know he can take it without acting like a crybaby. The swapping… — Frank Pittman Copy Share
Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. — Frank Pittman Copy Share
Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity. — Frank Pittman Copy Share
In time, after a dozen years of centering their lives around the games boys play with one another, the boys' bodies change and that… — Frank Pittman Copy Share
