Quotes About Relationships

I think relationship problems are still social, not genetic.

love is a force in human psychology that never disappears.

Also outside of work should be the relationships that offer the safe harbor from the emotional storms created by your sensitivity. Don't look for that among your colleagues, and especially not from your supervisors. You're just too much for them to handle, and they may decide there's "something wrong with you.

Couples in the better relationships understand the perpetual problems differently; they dialogue about them rather than fighting over them.

In our culture, however, possessing this trait is not considered ideal and that fact probably has had a major impact on you. Well-meaning parents and teachers probably tried to help you "overcome" it, as if it were a defect. Other children were not always as nice about it. As an adult, it has probably been harder to find the right career and relationships and generally to feel self-worth and self-confidence.

May Ted and Josie continue to give, forgive, and receive more joy with each passing day. May they have the love of their family, the support of their friends, long life, good health, and everlasting love.

Please don't be mad at me," Rich said. "I thought when a woman cared about a man, she naturally wanted to care for his house. It's like an instinct." "Wrong," Helen said. "There's no connection between hormones and housekeeping.

I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.

The thing about breaking up when you get older, you just don't have the steam anymore. "Oh, that's it. I can't start shaving my legs above the knee again."

I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me.

trust takes years to build seconds to break and forever to repair

At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but just as soon as she gets one, she wants everything else in the world.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

True life lies in laughter, love and work.

The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.

I know that sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings. They see themselves as so inadequate that they feel forced to wear a mask in order to continuously impress the other. I do not want to "hold" you, I want you to "stay" out of your own need for me.

It takes time and deeds, and this involves trust, it involves making ourselves vulnerable to each other…to become sitting ducks for each other----and if one of the ducks is shamming, then the sincere duck will pay in pain---but the deceitful duck, I feel, will be the loser.

Your confusion and self-doubt are important warning signals that you may be encountering someone who has a narcissistic personality disorder.

Although not as exaggerated as the grandiosity of the narcissistically defended child, the codependent child now manifests a measure of grandiosity in her own right—the extraordinary helper.

Whether we do this explicitly or implicitly, we must learn to extricate ourselves from the narcissist's constant distortion of reality.