Top 6 William J. Doherty Quotes (2025 Update)

William J. Doherty Quote: “A family, like a canoe, must be steered or paddled, or it won’t take you where you want to go.”

1. “A family, like a canoe, must be steered or paddled, or it won’t take you where you want to go.”

2. “Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our society suffers with the collapse of the relationship of the couple who brings a child into the world.”

— William J. Doherty

3. “Why would a married couple that lives together every day need to date each other? It’s precisely because they live and sleep together.”

— William J. Doherty

4. “If a married couple with children has fifteen minutes of uninterrupted, non-logistical, non-problem-solving talk every day, I would put them in the top 5% of all married couples. It’s an extraordinary achievement.”

— William J. Doherty

5. “Most of us are now free to walk away from our marital commitments more easily than from any other contract in our lives.”

— William J. Doherty

6. “John Gottman is our leading explorer of the inner world of relationships. In The Relationship Cure, he has found gold once again. This book shows how the simplest, nearly invisible gestures of care and attention hold the key to successful relationships with those we love and work with.”

— William J. Doherty

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