Common ground Quote by Ranjani Rao

“It was possible for couples to not discover that they are in profound disagreement over the very fundamentals of life until ten or twenty…

— Julian Fellowes

“After all, what is a marriage if not an agreement to distort one's perception of another, in relation to everyone else?”

— Michael Lewis

“Everyone's parents argue-that just happens in any relationship-but parents shouldn't fight in front of their kids.”

— Courtney Allison Moulton

“Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society's map. What others don't know about it is what makes it yours.”

— Stephen King

“But they'd had disagreements through the years, some of which I'd seen resolved, some I hadn't, and they always pressed on. Mother had told…

— Anita Lustrea

“Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for.”

— Alain de Botton

“I realized that marriage is not only about exchanging vows, but it is about two people who equally make a continuous effort to honour…

— Gift Gugu Mona

“Marriage is complicated.”

— Tayari Jones

“Marriage came with storms and rocks.  He’d watched his parents long enough to know that.  Sometimes the outside world threw problems at you—and sometimes…

— Debora Geary

“Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules. And then…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Marriage is like calculus. Complicated and inexplicably remote. People think it's about loving one another and riding off into the sunset, but no one…

— Kristin Billerbeck

“In marriage, we may learn to check our words, and to submerge those feelings and actions which will inevitably lead to strife, but we…

— Gaynor Arnold