How to Be Married Quotes

“When you wake up next to someone every day, pick their hair out of the drain, clean up their dirty dishes, socks, and underwear, listen to them bitch about their job and tell the same stories and jokes over and over again, it's nice to be reminded of what it's like when they're not around - and to realize things are better when they are.”
― Jo Piazza, How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents About Surviving My First (Really Hard) Year of Marriage

“Nearly every romantic comedy ever made ends with the wedding and leaves out the most interesting part—the marriage.”
― Jo Piazza, How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents About Surviving My First (Really Hard) Year of Marriage

“The Western transition away from tribal culture has caused us a few great losses - one of them is the concept of true community. Without community we turn to the economy to replace what we’ve lost by hiring therapists, nannies, doulas, reiki healers and housekeepers. But it’s hard to hire a mentor, to find women and men who’ve been there before us and are willing to honestly counsel us about what marriage really has in store.”
― Jo Piazza, How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents About Surviving My First (Really Hard) Year of Marriage

“I look at my long-married friends and wonder if perhaps the quotidian nature of daily married life-- the repetition, routine, and perpetual proximity of another human-- makes it dangerously easy to become numb to whatever made you fall in love in the first place and to search for imperfections where you once only found delight.”
― Jo Piazza, How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents About Surviving My First (Really Hard) Year of Marriage

“Never stop talking Talk about things that make you feel uncomfortable and itchy and happy and sad and strange Talk in person, on the phone, over text, via emoji; just keep talking Shut the door when you pee You do you Complaining is contagious; don’t start the complaining or you’ll never stop Buy sexy new underwear once a month Walk naked around the house, but don’t lie around in sweatpants…ever.”
― Jo Piazza, How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents About Building a Happy Marriage