Quotes About Relationships

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Here's a little secret: ironically, people with dominant Seductor Imposters might seem to crave intimacy—they certainly draw people into their orbit with the promise of it—but what actually animates them behind the scenes is fear of it.

People who like to fix other people become "catastrophizers. Fixing becomes an unconscious way of preventing a "what if" from happening.

We want intimacy with others. In fact, we might crave it. But since we've never fully experienced bonds of trust, we don't allow intimacy into our lives. So we keep it at bay.

Please don't. We're an ocean apart in who we are, how we look at life, as well as in our hopes and dreams for the future.

love was more than just mere emotions. Love was a decision.

Life and love get complicated. But love and the right relationship is worth it.

No doubt he'd been with Heidi until all hours of the morning. He knew where she stood about sex, condoms, his future, Heidi's ... bringing it up now would only exacerbate an already prickly situation. "Nothing good happens after midnight," she reminded him. "You're wrong, Mom, and you know it.

It was funny how tangled lives could become, how so many lives could brush against you only to disappear with the dawn.

I can't accept a man who insists on dominating and pampering me.

If you loveach other, whatever happens you can deal with it, you can work it out. Because if there's one thing I've learned, it's that it's really not much fun having an adventure with someone you're not in love with.

Kim sometimes thinks that women practice being mothers on men until they become actual mothers, leaving behind a kind of vacancy.

you are the only woman I have ever met who I would want to be in a little house with, do you see? Other women make me want to get on boats and run away. You, you make me want to stay somewhere, so that I can see your face everyday. So that I can hold you everyday and watch you grow older. You make me want to be an adult man. You make me want to settle down.

even though Im no longer with her, she's still a part of me? You know, the part of love that isn't about sex, it doesn't automatically die. Or at least it doesn't have to.

Listen, Dad, in a family like this, the wife without a child is at the bottom of the heap. Everyone comes before them. Everyone.

And when you hate someone, it leaves deeper scars on your psyche than loving someone ever can.

But he's your boyfriend?' 'Partner,' she said, 'he's my partner. I don't own him. He doesn't own me. All that matters is his happiness.' 'Yes,' I said thoughtfully. 'But what about yours?' She didn't reply.

Her daughter is dead and her mother is dead and her husband lives with a woman who is nicer than her in a hundred different ways. But she is OK.

That's the whole bloody trouble with the world. Too weak to love properly. Too weak to be wrong.

that a man who can't love but desperately needs to be loved is a dangerous thing indeed.

Do you love him?' 'Yes.' 'Do you love him enough to hurt a lot of people who don't deserve to be hurt?' 'How do you expect me to answer that?' 'It's a tough question, but you do need to answer it. Not now, but over the next hours and days.

The front door goes again, and Josh appears. Cate's heart lifts a little. While Georgia always arrives with news and moods and announcements and atmospheres, her little brother arrives as though he'd never left. He doesn't bring things in with him, his issues unfurl gently and in good time.

And also, I was in love with him and when you're in love, you'll forgive almost anything. It's a trait that I've carried with me into adult life, unfortunately. I always fall in love with people who hate me.

Never marry a woman. They might look good, but they destroy you.