Quotes About Relationships

O propósito do amor não é ser a solução, a resposta ou a cura para a outra pessoa. O propósito do amor é ajudar o outro a encontrar o que eles precisam, da maneira que você puder.

And what I want to tell him is that now I understand why people want to share a life with someone else. I see what all the fuss is about. It's not about sex or being in a couple when you hang out with other couples. It's not for ego or gratification or fear of loneliness. It's about this, whatever this is. -Rhiannon

In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals. I know this is hard for people to do, but I don't understand why it's so hard, when it's so obvious.

Zakochanie si? w drugiej osobie nie oznacza, ?e wiesz, co ta druga osoba czuje, wiesz tylko, co ty czujesz

When first love ends, most people eventually know there will be more to come. They are not through with love. Love is not through with them. It will never be the same as the first, but it will be bettter in different ways.

most people don`t know my name, and nobody knows what to call me in relation to you.

My mother once told me that you really know someone when you know their parents.

I think you're nice to me and that scares the fuck out of me. Because when a guy's a jerk or an asshole, it's easier because you know exactly where you stand. Since trust isn't an option, you don't have to get all freaked out about maybe having to trust him.

Cand prima dragoste se sfarseste, cei mai multi dintre oameni stiu ca vor veni si altele. N-au terminat cu iubirea. Iubirea nu a terminat cu ei. Nu va fi niciodata la fel ca prima, dar va fi mai buna in diferite feluri. Eu nu am o astfel de consolare. De asta ma agat din rasputeri. De asta e atat de greu.

What's Valentine's Day about except the desperate search to find someone to spend Valentine's Day with? It just shows that love has become a marketing campaign, like everything else. You buy into it and lose everything.

I think you're nice to me and that scares the fuck out of me. Because when a guy's a jerk or an asshole, it's easier because you know where you stand.

Will, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.

David Lipsky: Why aren't you married at thirty-four? David Foster Wallace: You first. David Lipsky: Um-I think it's hard to fill that role...to cast it and to fill it when you know it's for thirty or forty years...someone who, whatever mental landscape you're in, they're going to be in it too, you need someone who'll fit any landscape you can imagine.

It's just much easier with dogs. You don't get laid; but you also don't get the feeling you're hurting their feelings all the time.

As one woman noted, "The best way to get over one man is to get under another."24

A woman's happiness increases when the man brings more economic resources to the union and shows kindness, affection, and commitment. A man's happiness increases when the woman is more physically attractive than he is, and when she shows kindness, affection, and commitment.

Men's affairs are more likely to be purely sexual; women's affairs are more often emotional.

Men's banter, when it does not center on sports or work, often revolves around the appearance and sexual availability of women in their social circles.

Women past and present face the adaptive problem of choosing men who not only have the necessary resources but also show a willingness to commit those resources specifically to them. This problem may be more difficult than it seems at first. Although resources can often be directly observed, commitment cannot. Instead, gauging commitment requires looking for probabilistic cues. Love is one of the most important cues to commitment.

Men worldwide want physically attractive, young, and sexually loyal wives who will remain faithful to them over the long run. These preferences cannot be attributed to Western culture, to capitalism, to white Anglo-Saxon bigotry, to the media, or to incessant brainwashing by advertisers. They are universal across cultures and are absent in none.

Women today continue to want men who have resources, and they continue to reject men who lack resources.

One distinguishing feature of men's relaxation of standards for short-term sex partners involves the need for commitment. In contrast to the tremendous positive value of +2.17 out of 3.00 that men placed on commitment when seeking a marriage partner, men seeking a casual hookup disliked a quest for commitment in a woman, judging it – 1.40, or undesirable, in a short-term partner.

Se ha demostrado que el hombre que emplea la coerción para obtener relaciones sexuales manifiesta un conjunto específico de características. Suele ser agresivo con las mujeres, sostiene el mito de que en el fondo quieren ser violadas y presenta un perfil de personalidad marcado por la impulsividad, la agresividad y la hipervirilidad, combinados con un elevado grado de promiscuidad sexual. Los estudios sobre violadores demuestran asimismo que poseen una baja autoestima.

El hombre a quien solo le interesan las relaciones sexuales ocasionales no tiende a invertir tanto esfuerzo.