Quotes About Relationships

I couldn't just love someone and be loved back. That was too easy. That didn't feel right. I was more familiar with dissatisfaction.

My mother wanted to be needed, but she never wanted to need anyone else. She would be the one baking cherry pies. She would be the one cleaning gutters and painting ceilings and pulling ivy out of the backyard. This is so often the paradox of truly, astoundingly capable people. They're never quite capable of sitting back and allowing the people around them to be the capable ones.

Face-to-face, real-time connection to others feels fraught and awkward compared to the safe distance of digital communication. We maintain intimate virtual contact with strangers but seem increasingly isolated from our closest friends and family members.

Our culture exerts a constant pressure on us that severs our relationship to ourselves and each other.

It takes work sometimes, to love the people you trust, and to trust the people you love.

Marriage can't always be about living your best lives in sync. Because some of the peak moments of a marriage are when you share in your insecurities, your anxieties, your fears, and your longing.

Whether he was flirting with you, hiring you, or marrying you, Don Draper was just not that into you.

White lies are in chapter two of the bestfriend handbook. They are to be used sparingly and only under extreme circumstances. I'm pretty sure finding out your boyfriend of more than a year is a total jerk qualifies.

Can a girl find true love if she doesn't believe it exists?

When you really love someone, you see all their mess and their brokenness and you love them anyway. In fact, seeing all of that sort of makes you love them more.

one of my biggest illusions was that other people were meant to assuage my anxiety by filling some lack that I was responsible for filling myself. If I wanted to give, the giving had to be "for fun and for free." The giving couldn't be out of guilt, nor because I secretly wanted to get something back, nor because I wanted the other person to respond in such a way as to satisfy my longing to be useful. Thérèse

You can't keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick.

All the objects you gifted me cannot replace your love.

Love is the hand that props up your heart when age's torrid heat has long battled along side it.

Love walks wildernesses of discovery and adventure but it always returns home to the divine with the ones it loves most.

There are few things love does not understand, how to love you is not one of them.

You are here to learn, not to love. Although you may learn not to love, which is another thing entirely.

What she didn't know, what she took for granted about living with Karl and being a wife, was far larger than the things she could name.

I truly missed my parents. I wanted to miss them. It was the only way I could love them, a crazy cocktail of longing and pretending and absence and hope.

I'd set out to write a book about how we learn to trust our own experience in the face of confusion, doubt, and anxiety. What I ended up with is the story of how we love each other in spite of immense limitations

Jess falls asleep with her head against Darcy's shoulder, and I see Mr. Hawthorne waggle his eyebrows at Mrs. Hawthorne, who smiles over at Mrs. Delaney. I guess I'm not the only one who's noticed what's going on.

When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!

He that is jealous is not in love. —St. Augustine

don't like that man. I must get to know him better. —Abraham Lincoln