Treat your husband like a child. Tame him like the lion you have tamed. Be patient, cunning , intelligent . And he will never be able to separate from you. This is the secret to keeping a husband. No amulet could beat it.

I know a woman loves me when she leaves me leftovers in the fridge from the date she went on the night before.

So long as you use a knife, there's some love left.

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

. . . children should draw [a husband & wife] nearer than ever, not separate you, as if they were all yours, and [your husband] had nothing to do but support them. . . . don't neglect husaband for children, don't shut him out of the nursery, but teach him how to help in it. His place is there as well as yours, and the children need him; let him feel that he has his part to do, and he will do it gladly and faithfully, and it will be better for you all. . . . That is the secret of our home happiness: he does not let business wean him from the little cares and duties that affect us all, and I try not to let domestic worries destroy my interest in his pursuits. Each do our part alone in many things, but at home we work together, always. . . . no time is so beautiful and precious to parents as the first years of the little lives given them to train. Don't let [your husband] be a stranger to the babies, for they will do more to keep him safe and happy in this world of trial and temptation than anything else, and through them you will learn to know and love one another as you should.

You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

A WORD TO HUSBANDS

To keep your marriage brimming.
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage…Like two out of every ten couples.

I am the luckiest women on earth to have a supportive husband.When I am down he picks me up and when the goinggets tough, he always urges me to keep on going and strong.

The secret of a long marriage is shaving your legs every day . . . because it shows you still care.

"You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact.
"I do," I say. Also a fact.

It is not necessary, says Yvonne,
to have every day with him whom
to the end thereof you will love.
Because it is tasty to remember
he is alive, and laughs
in somebody else’s room.
or is slicing a cucumber,
or is buttoning his cuffs,
or is signing with his pen
and will plan
to touch you again.

He realized how little he knew of this world, but he knew this: If you could love someone, you possessed a soul. (p348)