Quotes About Relationships

Mindful of the boundaries between us and our grown children, we make the effort to take the differences between us less personally

Unconditional love is the magic bridge that spans the generations: we love them unconditionally, and they love us back without reservations. It's a two-way experience. It grows the children and gentles the grandparents.

I love my life as a writer and mapmaker of family relationships.

Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life may grow.

Two parents, to say nothing of one, cannot possibly satisfy all the needs of a family-household. A community is needed as well, for raising children, and also to keep adults reasonably sane and cheerful. A community is a complex organism with complicated resources that grow gradually and organically.

Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long ago — the baby, the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the avoider.... It doesn't seem to matter how much time has elapsed or how far we've traveled.

Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long ago - the baby, the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the avoider.... It doesn't seem to matter how much time has elapsed or how far we've traveled.

They learn to relate by caretaking, pleasing, isolating, or acting out rather than fully relating with their true and authentic selves. As a result, they feel accepted for their roles, not for who they were. Adult Children often have no idea how to have an equal partner relationship with healthy communication and normal conflict. As one ACOA said, "I feel that everyone else got a book at birth on how to live life, have relationships, and parent—and I never got my copy.

Especially in the first years of life, connection with caring and responsive parents and other caregivers is critical for your child. You influence the very structure and wiring of your baby's brain; you influence the person she becomes and the future she will have.

There is simply no substitute for time and attention, and children who have the opportunity to bond well with parents find it easier to get along with others and to be comfortable in their world as they grow up.

El humor es una de las mejores y más disfrutables herramientas de crianza.

shame and humiliation are disrespectful, and a child who is treated with disrespect is likely to return the favor.

Kindness and firmness show respect for your child's dignity, your own dignity, and the needs of the situation.

I love you more than I hate cars, so I decided I'd try to face my fears and take some risks.

Damn him. How could she ever respect him if he didn't even let her respect herself? A man that broke down her defenses with touch- with pleasure- well, that was just wrong.

And if they're fictional, it is entirely acceptable to cheat on fictional men with other fictional men.

One of these days, you're going to fall in love with some guy, and you're not going to know what to do with yourself.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

In second grade my second love wrote "I love you" on a scrap of paper and dropped it on my desk as he passed by. He was very shy and sullen. When he moved to another school at the end of the term, I was heartsick. I thought about him all summer. But I learned then that we do outgrow people and our tastes do change. One should not marry until one is older. At least ten.

If you cannot be happy here, at least you will be alive and safe. And that's important to me, Stephen. Somebody told me once he'd do anything to keep me safe, because he didn't want to be alone in the universe. Well, my precious, priceless Partner, neither do I.

I've had two terrific relationships, but both ended in marriage.

Keep your heart open, and love will always find its way

I tour alone. There's no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts I am in a family home and it's really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it's a new relationship being built. It's odd and wonderful.

I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.