In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

After a long time in laboratories, psychologists have discovered the holy grail of a happy marriage: I applied it and it didn't work

In that conversation with Richard, Kris did precisely what she'd done before offering her tennis quitting advice from years before. She paid attention. Instead of getting swept up in a reaction--regardless of how legitimate it would have been--she unseated herself and chose to focus on what Richard was saying. That kind of awareness is rare. It's rare in a person and even more so with a couple.

If you can figure out how to choose happiness in your marriage daily, and stop sweating the small stuff, it'll take ten years off your life.

When you give a happy couple the opportunity to talk about what makes marriage great, it's like a water spigot you can't quite turn off.

Happy marriages are alive and well. The cries of their demise have been highly overrated, and couples happily married do indeed exist.