Marriages

A man who throws away a jacket because it has torn at the elbow has misunderstood what made it valuable in the first place.

Growth collapses under pressure when structure becomes coercion rather than support.

Most marital arguments collapse not because of what was said, but because neither person stopped long enough to measure what was actually happening.

A marriage can survive conflict. It cannot survive distortion.

Kindness is the climate of a marriage, and climate decides what can live.

A castle does not fall because it is attacked once. It falls because defenses are treated as optional.

A man does not abandon his marriage in a single dramatic moment. He begins by dimming.