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JUST BROWSING THE INTERNET AND FOUND A FEW TERRIFIC QUOTES

 

“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”  ~  Dave Meurer

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“A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.”  ~ Wilson Mizner

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“Teenagers don’t know what love is. They have mixed-up ideas. They go for a drive and the boy runs out of gas and they smooch a little and the girl says she loves him. That isn’t love. Love is when you are married twenty-five years, smooching in your living room and he runs out of gas and she says she still loves him.  That’s love.” ~ Norm Crosby

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“The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.” ~ Logan Pearsall Smith

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“To be able to look back upon one’s past life with satisfaction is to live twice.”
~ John Emerich Edward Dalberg

JUST BROWSING THE INTERNET AND FOUND A FEW TERRIFIC QUOTES

 

“Where there is love there is life.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

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“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ~ Lao Tzu

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“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.” ~ Dave Meurer

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“I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.” ~ Lyndon B. Johnson

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“Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.” ~ Zig Ziglar

AN ACT OF DOMESTIC ABUSE OCCURS EVERY 12 SECONDS IN THE U.S.

It wasn’t my intention to present a classic case of Domestic Abuse when I wrote Karma Visited, but Annie Furman is in a BAD marriage where her husband keeps her from friends and family, monitors her moves, doles out only enough money to purchase groceries, berates her verbally, and forces servitude on her.

Annie Furman is a classic case of an abused wife

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from the SUNY Downstate Medical Center:

Domestic abuse, or “battering”, is a pattern of abuse by one partner against the other, for the purpose of maintaining power and control…
Psychological battering: The abuser’s psychological or mental abuse can include constant verbal abuse, harassment, excessive possessiveness, fault-finding, isolating the woman from friends and family, deprivation of physical and economic resources, and destruction of personal property.

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