Quotes About Relationships

when he was away she could stand him, and the farther he was away the more she could stand him!

I know," he said with sudden bitterness, "because your mother's game is working after all. She is turning you against me." "No," said Louie. He looked at her pityingly, "No, I know you don't know it, Looloo.

Men are always good to fools and perfect idiots," cried Henny impatiently. "A man will run ten miles from a woman with sense.

You fall madly in love with one man and nearly break your heart because he throws you over and years later you find out you would have been miserable with him; and you go to a man you don't care for and it's just the same with him too. Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that. Why was I ever born?

Your old man sent me anonymous letters himself to make me divorce him." She rippled with he-hes. "I hung on to spite him. I didn't want him. It's my only pleasure left." She laughed.

I knew before marriage to Henrietta Collyer that she and I should never have come together, but a young man's sense of honor, so often mistaken, misplaced as medieval chivalry, prevented me from making the break.

Some children of borderlines secretly wish that their mother would die, not because they hate her, but because living with her seems impossible.

When enraged, some divorced borderlines may deprive their children of contact with their father either to punish him or the children.

Children with borderline mothers adjust to the chaos of their lives by learning to expect the unexpected. They associate love with fear and kindness with danger.

Borderlines may destroy what is good and loved by their children because they are intensely jealous of the loved object.

It is rare for even adult children to abandon their mother, regardless of how many times their mother has abandoned them.

When you love someone who is selfish and you want to stay close to them, you always end up trying to please them and that determines how you spend much of your day - even your life.

In the property division splitting couples go through, the allocation of friends must surely be the most painful.

The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes. —HAROLD B. LEE

Effective conflict resolution requires empathy: kids have to be able to take their friends' or siblings' points of view into account, which presents a natural opportunity for children to learn to consider other people's feelings.

By nature man without woman can feel no joy. She is his mother, his sister, his loving friend. She is seldom his enemy.

There is quite often argument and discord, as much in outlook as in conversation, between old people and young ones, to the point that they can hardly stand each other, as though they were members of two different species.

Alors que le salarié dépend du marché (d'un nombre théoriquement illimité d'employeurs), la femme mariée dépend d'un individu. Alors que le salarié vend sa force de travail, la femme mariée la donne : exclusivité et gratuité sont intimement liées.

Si un divorce est la fin d'un mariage en tant qu'institution. Il n'a pas été créé pour détruire le mariage puisqu'il ne serait pas nécessaire si le mariage n'existait pas. En ce sens, comme bien des auteurs l'ont montré, même la fréquence des divorces peut être interprétée non comme un signe que l'institution du mariage est malade, mais au contraire comme un signe qu'elle est florissante. (p. 122)

As she stands in the doorway watching him, the feeling comes on her again, under her breastbone, between her ribs. A feeling that is one second of joy, two seconds of grief. And she knows then: what has been removed is loneliness and what has been added is love

The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?

Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.

She stared at herself in the mirror. Her eyes were dark, almost black, filled with pain. She'd let someone do that to her. She'd known all along she felt things too deeply. She became attached. She didn't want a lover who could walk away from her, because she could never do that - love someone completely and survive intact if her left her.

The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but who I really am.