Fawn Weaver Quotes & Sayings

That is one of the beauties of marriage. The power of two is greater than the strength of one. A — Fawn Weaver

Connection starves suspicion. — Fawn Weaver

Like a water filter, your words filter needs to be replaced regularly to continue purifying. — Fawn Weaver

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. — Fawn Weaver

Selfishness is the opposite of love. Love is giving for the benefit of another. Selfishness is demanding that others meet my needs. Two demanding people - two selfish people - will never have the marriage of which they dreamed. The attitude of love is the foundation upon which a healthy marriage is built. When both husband and wife are seeking the well-being of the other, they will build the marriage they have always wanted. This — Fawn Weaver

Sometimes your talent can steer you away from your passion. — Fawn Weaver

Great marriages are made when husbands and wives don't allow cultural expectations to dictate their life decisions or their day-to-day interactions. A one-of-a-kind value system is forged, blended — Fawn Weaver

I've known plenty of couples who choose to ignore budding problems or dissatisfactions because it's easier in the moment. But too much of that for long enough, and you all of a sudden have a huge problem on your hands, or a midlife crisis, or a broken marriage. — Fawn Weaver

Making love is not equivalent to love. But not making love is most certainly a waste. We didn't want to be wasteful. — Fawn Weaver

He had backed her every dream, loved her every flaw, and seen their marriage as a story unfolding. — Fawn Weaver

Bonnie and Jerry told me they never run away fro disagreements. They face each one head-on. "By holding it in, you'll begin to slowly form a negative opinion of each other," Bonnie reasoned, "which means you can't work out what the disagreement is. — Fawn Weaver

Love becomes marvelous," he continued, "when you become content with what you have. — Fawn Weaver

Creating a happy marriage begins with choosing the right spouse. — Fawn Weaver

Divorce was never a thought ... A life together forever was our only plan. — Fawn Weaver

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. — Fawn Weaver

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

Those who don't take themselves too seriously have marriages that seem to just be better. — Fawn Weaver

Every happily married person I interviewed on my trip was grateful for his or her spouse, thanking God daily for one another. — Fawn Weaver

Like most complicated things where it's easy to get derailed, their marriage was successful because they mastered the basics. From that mastery they could weather anything. — Fawn Weaver

You can either feed negative thoughts or you can starve the suckers. — Fawn Weaver

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. — Fawn Weaver

Our world badly needs people who know how to listen. — Fawn Weaver

Early in our marriage, we knew that once the kids were gone, we would still be married and have to work on it. So, we decided to pay it forward. We worked in the first year like we wanted things to be in the fiftieth year. I'm so glad we did. — Fawn Weaver