Romance Secret #7: True Love Needs Time to Grow

[1] Willard F. Harley Jr., His Needs, Her Needs: Building An Affair-Proof Marriage (Grand Rapids: Revell, 2011), 70.

[2] M. Gary Neuman, “New Year’s Resolutions for Your Marriage,” Huffington Post (blog), December 31, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/m-gary-neuman/new-years-resolutions-for_b_2389532.html; and Dana Fillmore, “Dr. Dana’s Help if You Have Grown Apart from Your Spouse,” Strong Marriage Now, accessed October 7, 2011, https://www.strongmarriagenow.com/important-problem/grown-apart-yt/.

[3] Ibid., Fillmore.

[4] W. Bradford Wilcox and Jeffrey Dew, The Date Night Opportunity: What Does Couple Time Tell Us about the Potential Value of Date Nights? (Charlottesville, VA: National Marriage Project/University of Virginia, 2012), 5.

[5] David Mace, quoted in John R. Buri, How to Love Your Wife (Mustang, OK: Tate Publishing, 2006), 57.

[6] Leslie Becker-Phelps, “Time Together: A Cure for Relationship Problems,” April 27, 2011, WebMD (blog), http://blogs.webmd.com/art-of-relationships/2011/04/time-together-a-cure-for-relationship-problems.html.

[7] IMDb, “Mrs. Doubtfire (1993): Quotes,” accessed October 3, 2015, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107614/quotes.

[8] Roy Croft, quoted in Hazel Felleman (ed.), Best Loved Poems of the American People (New York: Doubleday, 1936), 25.

[9] Carolyn Pirak, “Make Time for Your Partner,” ParentMap (blog), August 26, 2008, https://www.parentmap.com/article/make-time-for-your-partner.

[10] Michele Weiner-Davis, “Time Together,” Divorce Busting: Michele’s Articles, © 2009, accessed October 7, 2015, http://www.divorcebusting.com/a_time_together.htm.

[11] Dana Fillmore, “Dr. Dana’s Help if You Have Grown Apart from Your Spouse,” Strong Marriage Now, accessed October 7, 2011, https://www.strongmarriagenow.com/important-problem/grown-apart-yt/.

[12] Becker-Phelps, “Time Together: A Cure for Relationship Problems.”

[13] Lois Clark, “Building a Strong Marriage: Finding Time,” The Ohio State University Extension: Family Life Month Packet 2002, 2, http://ohioline.osu.edu/flm02/pdf/fs02.pdf.

[14] Pirak, “Make Time for Your Partner.”

[15] Wilcox and Dew, The Date Night Opportunity, 6.

[16] Tara Parker Pope, “Reinventing Date Night for Long-Married Couples,” New York Times, February 12, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/health/12well.html?_r=0.

[17] Ibid.

[18] Arthur Szabo, Selecta (a West German science magazine circa 1968), quoted in Margaret Anderson Bonn, “Morning Kiss Really Counts,” The Virgin Islands Daily News, June 26, 1968, 10, 13, quoted in Noelia Trujillo, “10 Oh-So Fascinating Facts About Kissing,” Good Housekeeping, March 16, 2015, http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/relationships/advice/a31659/kissing-facts/.