Daily Tips from The Marriage Library
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Happy Valentine's Day.
 
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Here's a nice story for Valentine's Day and a collection of quotes that I gleaned from http://www.smartmarriages.com/marriage.quotes.html.
 
Jim 
Valentine's Day
 
On Valentine's Day an old man got on a bus one February 14th, carrying a dozen roses.  He sat beside a young man.  The young man looked at the roses and said, "Somebody's going to get a beautiful Valentine's Day gift."
 
"Yes," said the old man.
 
A few minutes went by and the old man noticed that his young companion was staring at the roses.  "Do you have a girlfriend?" the old man asked.
 
"I do," said the young man.  "I'm going to see her right now, and I'm going to give her this Valentine's Day card."
 
They rode in silence for another 10 minutes, and then the old man got up to get off the bus.  As he stepped out into the aisle, he suddenly placed the roses on the young man's lap and said, "I think my wife would want you to have these. I'll tell her that I gave them to you."
 
He left the bus quickly.  As the bus pulled away, the young man turned to see the old man enter the gates of a cemetery.
 
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I'm very neat. My wife is messy - never picks anything up. Doesn't even notice the mess - it's below her radar. I cured myself from my annoyance with her by imagining that she had died and then asking myself, "If you could bring her back to life but she'd still be messy, leave clutter all over the house - 5 pairs of shoes in the living room, would you still want her back?" "Yes, for sure!"
 
And, it cured me. Whenever I get annoyed with her mess, I rerun the script.  Sam Bradley

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I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them - it was that promise.

Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth
 
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When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible."
Billy Graham
 
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Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.
Frank Pittman 
 
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Love the family! Defend and promote it as the basic cell of human society; nurture it as the prime sanctuary of life. Give great care to the preparation of engaged couples and be close to young married couples, so that they will be for their children and the whole community an eloquent testimony of God's love.

Pope John Paul II, 2001
 
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President George W. Bush proposed, as part of welfare reform reauthorization, the creation of a pilot program to promote healthy and stable marriage. Participation in the program would be strictly voluntary, and funding would be small-scale: $300 million per year. This sum represents one penny to promote healthy marriage for every five dollars the government spends subsidizing single parenthood. . . . The collapse of marriage is the principal cause of child poverty in the United States. . . Overall, some 80% of long-term child poverty in the United States is found among children from broken or never-formed families. Robert Rector, 2003
 
(In 2006, Congress authorized $150 million a year for marriage education pilot programs, so, for now, a 1/2 a penny will have to do.)
 
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The effects of the decline of marriage on society are striking. The failure of parents to marry and stay married leads to more crime, poverty, mental health problems, welfare dependency, failed schools, blighted neighborhoods, bloated prisons, and higher rates of single parenting and divorce in the next generation. Nearly every major social problem has deep roots in the failure of adults to form and sustain healthy marriages. There are other causes of these social problems, of course, such as economic dislocations and the decline of civic life and social responsibility in the United States, but the disconnection of childrearing from marriage ranks high on the list of what ails our society and our communities.

Bill Doherty, Philanthropy Roundtable, 2006
 
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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths.
No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they
have been married a quarter of a century.
Mark Twain
 
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Real giving is when we give to our spouses what's important to them,
whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not.

Michele Weiner-Davis, Divorce Busting  
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God bless your marriage and family.
 
Jim Stephens
 

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