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Love Quote by Nicole Kidman

"Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it"

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Marriage gets sold as either a fairy tale or a punchline; Kidman threads the needle by making it sound like work she actually wants. “Every day there is a compromise” lands first like a small deflation of romance, the kind of plainspoken line that pushes back against celebrity mythology. Coming from an actress whose public life has been endlessly narrated for her, it reads as a deliberate re-claiming of the story: not spectacle, not scandal, not a red-carpet accessory, just the daily logistics of two adults sharing space.

The phrasing is doing quiet PR without feeling like PR. “Living with somebody” is almost comically domestic, a reminder that even famous people argue about schedules, mess, mood, and who gets the last word. “Requires a lot of understanding” sounds like therapy language, but she keeps it human by not dressing it up. The subtext is boundaries: love isn’t the absence of friction, it’s the decision to keep negotiating anyway.

Then the pivot: “But I love being married. I really love it.” The repetition matters. It’s less a poetic flourish than a self-check, like she’s insisting on a truth that doesn’t fit the cultural script that compromise equals settling. In an era that treats commitment as either naive or oppressive, Kidman’s intent is to normalize the middle: marriage as a chosen structure, sustained by emotional literacy and daily concessions, not cinematic destiny.

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Kidman, Nicole. (2026, January 16). Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/every-day-there-is-a-compromise-living-with-93644/

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Kidman, Nicole. "Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/every-day-there-is-a-compromise-living-with-93644/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/every-day-there-is-a-compromise-living-with-93644/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman (born June 21, 1967) is a Actress from Australia.

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