[My wife Teresa and I were married on June 19th, =
1970. Many years ago, we enjoyed a two-week cruise through the Panama=
Canal, also visiting countries in South and Central America, and the Carib=
bean. On that cruise we formed a close friendship (not professionally) with=
Attorney Bradley Coates from Honolulu, Hawaii. After 25 years as a d=
ivorce lawyer, he has written a book called "Divorce with Decency"=
;, trying to help couples retain integrity in that very painful and difficu=
lt time. Some of his sources were bitter-sweet about the subject; her=
e are the TOP TEN.]
10. "Whoever thinks marriage is a 50-50 propositio=
n doesn’t know the half of it." – Anonymous
9. "The most d=
ifficult year of marriage is the one you’re in." – F.P. Jones
8=
=2E "Marriage is a master, mistress, and two slaves, making in all, tw=
o." – Ambrose Bierce
7. "Love at first sight is easy to un=
derstand. It’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifeti=
me that it becomes a miracle." – Sam Levinson
6. "A man =
in love is incomplete until he’s married. Then he is finished." – Zsa =
Zsa Gabor
5. "More marriages would survive if the partners real=
ized that sometimes the better comes after the worse." — Doug Larson
=
4. "Success in life means more than finding the right person to=
marry. Being the right person is even more important." – Elos Nelson
=
3. "Love has been described as a three-ring circus. First comes=
the engagement ring, then the wedding ring, and after that the suffer ring=
=2E" – Bob Phillips
2. "You can never tell about a marriag=
e from the outside. Some couples hold hands because they’re afraid that if =
they let go they’d kill each other."
1. "I’ll never get ma=
rried again. I’ll just find a woman I don’t like and give her a house."=
; – Lewis Grizzard
and a bonus:
&nbs=
p;
"I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every t=
ime I leave a man, I keep his house." – Zsa Zsa Gabor
~~~
Dr Bob Griffin
[email protected] www.grif.net=
“It is not enough to stare up the steps;
we mus=
t step up the stairs “