Couple Therapy Quotes

I have tried therapy a couple of times, but it hasn't worked. ~ Gail Porter

Marriage is a Bond so Strong, yet it gets weak if the knitters (the couples) do not weave the threads carefully, lovingly. ~ Sara Khan

I've got some good physical therapy for you. Any good at fencing?"
Joss almost choked on her mouthful of coffee. She sat up straight in her chair and shook her head. "No, Gus."
Troy ignored her. "I can fence in my sleep."
"Gus." She narrowed her eyes at her father-in-law who could be stubborn as a mule. "He dislocated his elbow. He shouldn't be doing any heavy lifting with his arm. Not to mention it's going to be in a splint for a couple of weeks."
"He's still got his right arm, don't he?"
"Yeah," Troy drawled, amusement flattening his vowels even more than usual. "I've still got my right arm."
She glared at Gus. "You want to take on a one-armed fencer?"
"Damien's got his summer job starting today so I'm losing my sidekick and Cody's out with his broken leg for another couple of weeks. It'd be handy to have even one extra hand on."
"I bet I can fence better one-armed than most men can with two."
There was no bravado to the claim. His expression was sincere and Joss believed him. She didn't doubt this man could do a crap ton of things better than most men. ~ Amy Andrews

I'm serious," I say. "I don't want to lose him."
"Then maybe you should go away for a little bit. After all, absence makes the heart grow horny, right?"
"That's not exactly how the saying goes."
"But it should, because you know it's true. If you go away for a couple of days, Ben won't know what to do with himself."
"Maybe you're right," I say, tossing more candy corn into my mouth (therapy in a bag).
"Damn straight, I am. Now, the biggest question: Can I fit into your suitcase? Because I really don't feel like staying here by myself. ~ Laurie Faria Stolarz

He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not. ~ Matthew Sweet

Dr Sue Johnson is the most original contributor to couples therapy to
come along in the last thirty years. This book will touch your heart,
stimulate your mind and give you practical strategies for improving
your relationship. ~ William J Doherty

We don't treat each other very well, I suppose. Even from the start. It was as though we had the seven-year itch the day we met. The day she went into a coma, I heard her telling her friend Shelley that I was useless, that I leave my socks hanging on every doorknob in the house. At weddings we roll our eyes at the burgeoning love around us, the vows that we know will morph into new kinds of promises: I vow not to kiss you when you're trying to read. I will tolerate you in sickness and ignore you in health. I promise to let you watch that stupid news show about celebrities, since you're so disenchanted with your own life.

Joanie and I were urged by her brother, Barry, to subject ourselves to counseling as a decent couple would. Barry is a man of the couch, a believer in weekly therapy, affirmations, and pulse points. Once he tried to show us exercises he'd been doing in session with his girlfriend. We were instructed to trade reasons, abstract or specific, why we stayed with each other. I started off by saying that Joanie would get drunk and pretend I was someone else and do this neat thing with her tongue. Joanie said tax breaks. Barry cried. Openly. His second wife had recently left him for someone who understood that a man didn't do volunteer work. ~ Kaui Hart Hemmings

As circulation improves over the next couple weeks, you'll start to get a persistent tingling, and then you'll need physical therapy to work toward regular functioning. Then, around October, a massive object will strike Earth and you will die. ~ Ben Winters

It's not the sex that gives you pleasure, it's the lover. For the remainder of my life, I plan to give this woman as much as she can handle, and then some. Often. Repeatedly. ~ A.K. Kuykendall

I've been working hard: lots of therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, yoga too. ~ Gabrielle Giffords

Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in this way, they are degraded to a secondary position. ~ James Hillman

Rest is not the answer
Activity and therapy help healing most ~ Joerg Teichmann

I talk about therapy a lot because I love therapy. It has just enriched my life. ~ Eva Mendes

The Tanzanian told her that all fiction was therapy, some sort of therapy, no matter what anybody said. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I've always had this feeling," Henry says, "that all dogs are really therapy dogs. ~ Meg Donohue

Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind. ~ Gautama Buddha

Couple stares, couple texts, couple dates. Couple 'I think that we're ready's couple 'I think we should wait's ~ Drake

Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within. ~ Marcus Aurelius

I'm paranoid about shopping. I get irritable. I find it tedious and taxing. People say shopping is retail therapy, but I need therapy after shopping. ~ Anushka Sharma

Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy. ~ Angelina Jolie

We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing. ~ Euripides

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy. ~ Denzel Washington

The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.' ~ Alfred Korzybski

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore. ~ Larry David

Well, my brother says Hello. So, hooray for speech therapy. ~ Emo Philips

Never diagnose a (client) until after their therapy is over. ~ Carl Jung

I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart. ~ Alasdair Gray

I really don't feel that writing is therapy. ~ Jennifer Gilmore

Part of my therapy is to write. ~ LeAnn Rimes

I've realized therapy is incredibly therapeutic. ~ Lisa Schroeder

He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli

Happiness is the consciousness of growth. [ ... ] If my definition has validity, it suggests that most people come to therapy because they sense their growth has been arrested. Certainly many patients look to therapy to reinstitute the growth process. (33) ~ Alexander Lowen

The show has become my therapy. ~ Damon Wayans

Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change. ~ Milton H. Erickson

Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me. ~ Justin Timberlake

Therapy is too good to be limited to the sick. ~ Erving Polster

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron. ~ Harold Bloom

I deal with emotional pain through therapy, writing, therapy in music. I think emotional pain is best dealt with when you use art to express it. ~ Naturi Naughton

It's weird people think my kids will be in therapy because of their names. Guys, my kids will be therapy for LOTS of reasons, I'm sure. ~ Busy Philipps

Talk between women friends is always therapy ... ~ Jayne Anne Phillips

I myself have been in therapy. Repeatedly. ~ Amy Brenneman

Everybody has their reasons. ~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy. ~ Brent Smith

Having a man this good looking begging me for sex was the best therapy I could ask for. ~ Lucy Robinson

People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy. ~ David Chase

Therapy is therapy. Writing is for writing. ~ Isabel Gillies

I've been in therapy my whole life. ~ LeAnn Rimes

It was like therapy. List-therapy. It's a thing. ~ Krista Ritchie

Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us. ~ Neal Shusterman

Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I go to cognitive behavioral therapy in order not to yell at my children. ~ Ayelet Waldman

Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions. ~ Aaron T. Beck

Cleaning is therapy for me. I'm not ashamed of holding the duster or broom. ~ Amisha Patel

There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all. ~ Alice Miller

In modern culture the Gospel has been superseded by forms of narcissistic therapy and faux altruism. ~ J. Earp

We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides

No class in physical therapy school prepared me to counsel a patient dealing with a life-changing injury. ~ Adele Levine

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life. ~ Tony Curtis

Friends are the best therapy. ~ Julianne Hough

If you have ever been to couples therapy it's really, really challenging. ~ Sandra Oh

I don't think there's anything better than talk therapy. ~ Chris Pine

You will usually discover that the creative process itself is truly the most healing part of any art therapy experience. ~ Cathy A. Malchiodi

Stem cell therapy has the potential to treat a multitude of diseases and illnesses, which up until now have been labelled 'incurable.' ~ Peter Jackson

I'm not a particularly good daughter, but I sat through a month of therapy for my parents' sake. I'd like to think they got more out of it than I did. Couldn't have been too hard. Any system that requires the patient's family to pay someone else to care about her is fundamentally flawed. ~ Lianne Oelke

I don't care what Tom Cruise says about therapy. ~ Mickey Rourke

One of the ways that a writer heals an invisible wound is through book therapy. ~ Angelica Hopes

If I went to someone for therapy, I wouldn't be a writer ... I would just be well adjusted. ~ Garth Stein

I'm too conceited for therapy. ~ Glen Duncan

Imagination is tapping into the subconscious in a form of open play. That is why art or music therapy, which encourages a person to take up brushes and paint or an instrument, and just express themselves, is so powerful. ~ Phil 'Philosofree' Cheney

Performing is my therapy, to become different people onstage. ~ Britney Spears

In therapy, I see myself in the mirror differently. ~ Ricky Williams

Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic. ~ Josh Peck

Therapy can help you grow. Fears will just disappear. ~ Stephanie Mills

There's nothing like a little Gideon therapy to make things look up. ~ Sylvia Day

In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need. ~ Irrfan Khan

Man is the artificer of his own happiness. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Writing has always been therapy for me. When life cuts me, I bleed on paper. ~ Steve Maraboli

I've had a lot of cognitive behavioural therapy, and am having a family now. ~ Trisha Goddard

Our goal is to figure out a therapy for prion diseases. ~ Stanley B. Prusiner

In 1995, Glaxo bought Burroughs Wellcome and became the presumptive leader in AIDS therapy. ~ Barton Gellman

There had been a head of the FDA (who later turned out to be a fraud) his name was Fishbein and he was rampantly opposed to any alternative therapy. He went after Hoxsey, the Hoxsey therapy back in the 1940's and 50's, and destroyed Hoxsey. But not before Hoxsey sued the AMA and Fishbein and [proved] that the therapy actually worked. But it didn't help him because they closed him down anyhow ~ Gary Null

Debriefing-style counseling after a trauma often aggravates a victim's stress-related symptoms, for example, and 4 in 10 bereaved people do better without grief therapy. ~ Winifred Gallagher

In New York City, everybody goes into therapy. ~ Claire Danes

Well, I have no time for therapy. ~ Amy Sherman-Palladino

The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy. ~ Matt Stone

To go into therapy is an adventure, not really to iron anything out. ~ Jeff Bridges

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole. ~ Margaret J. Wheatley

If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it. ~ Elizabeth Strout

I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don't know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more uncomfortable. ~ Jesse Eisenberg

I have not spent years in therapy; I tried therapy in my mid-twenties, and it did not go very well. I just thought, 'This is so not for me. I would rather talk to one of my girlfriends.' ~ Hope Davis

I think blogging, by and large, is basically therapy. And I'm sure, and I know, that there are some terrific bloggers and some legitimate bloggers. But I think, by and large, a huge percentage of people who are blogging are doing it for self-therapy. ~ Mike Barnicle

To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray

He didn't mind if she hated him. They were never going to be a cute romantic couple like Sam and Astrid. Clean-cut, righteous, all that. The perfect couple. He and Diana were the imperfect couple. ~ Michael Grant

If you have trouble with finding things you should get into some kind of therapy with a good therapist if you need, I mean I just believe in therapy for everybody. I really do. I don't think any body can escape it. ~ Joy Behar

In the past, when we've tried gene therapy, we haven't had tools that have allowed targeted gene correction. ~ Jennifer Doudna

It was either therapy or die. ~ Mickey Rourke

Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while. ~ George Pataki

Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense. ~ Jason Mraz

We live in a world where virtually everybody expects there's going to be some reasonable therapy for virtually any situation. ~ Dean Kamen

I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing. ~ Sally Kellerman

Therapy to life: Eat with the wise, and drink with the fools! ~ Anthony Liccione