Developmental Quote by Laszlo Bock

“The biggest cause of divorse in my opinion is marriage”

— Paul v. walters

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

— Tim Allen

“It has consistently been shown that when parents can contain their conflict, manage their own emotions, and do their job of parenting well, their…

— JoAnne Pedro-Carroll

In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic, a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts, an enabler rather…

— H. Norman Wright

The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the…

— John Irving

Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.

— Garcelle Beauvais

“In taking our marital arguments upstairs to avoid exposing the children to strife, we accidentally deprived them of chances to witness how two people…

— Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman

If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest…

— Sigmund Freud

When parents are educated about how not to involve children in their conflicts and co-parent amicably, a lot of the ill effects of divorce…

— Stephanie Coontz

“According to psychologist and author John Gottman, she was right. His groundbreaking research revealed that a whopping 69 percent of problems in marriage do…

— Marcia Naomi Berger

“Mutual defensiveness moves parents and children away from intersubjective experience and joint influence and into a desire to gain control of the situation. To”

— Daniel A. Hughes

“the success of a relationship is determined not by a lack of conflict but by how well a couple works through conflict.”

— Debra Fileta