Quotes About Relationships

Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice.

Of course it went badly," Karrin said. "It was a fight with someone in your family. Believe me, family fights are the worst." "The family hasn't even been assembled yet and there's fights," I complained. "Looks pretty assembled to me, from what I've seen," she said, her tone dry.

The only mirrors we have are other people.

I've got it buttoned down," I said, and started driving. "Don't worry. I'm not going to let it make me . . . take anything away from you." Molly folded her hands in her lap, looked down at them, and said in a small voice, "If it's given, freely offered, you can't really take it away. All you're doing is accepting a gift.

So I reached over, took her hand, and squeezed gently. After a while, I said, "Molly, I don't think it's ever going to happen. But if it ever does, the first time damned well isn't going to be like that. You deserve better. So do I.

remember that when things get hard, there are always people who care. I think you reminded me of that not that long ago. That's what friends are for.

When children say they are bored, it usually means "I want you to spend more time with me." Playing with our kids is one of the great joys of parenting.

No matter how old you are or how long--or short!--you've been married, the day you accelerate your growth in the Lord is the day your marriage is positively impacted, improved, and strengthened!

Your impact on the lives of others--your family, the people at your church, your workmates--is cultivated with each decision you make, no matter how small.

True biblical love is a selfless commitment of one's body, soul, and spirit to the betterment of the other person.

The closer a husband is to God, the closer he will grow to his wife.

Your religion cannot be divorced from your relationships.

God takes great joy in the passionate romantic love between a husband and wife.

Isabel saw all their lives becoming history in units of days and nights so fatally private there was no one left for her to love.

I don't want to get married or run away. I want my free will. I just want to love someone and not get fucked over.

Cliff, a cell phone isn't a toy. It's a very lucky technical miracle for all of us. It's a prime weapon against our essential loneliness. I can't say I've ever felt that lonely.

It was usually not the big things that destroyed marriages but the day-to-day treating each other poorly.

We can also learn to develop a new capacity for seeing the nervous water of an emotional process (a coach or a guide like Kenny is helpful). It requires some new categories for thinking; it means practicing some new disciplines and skills. It entails change in how we relate to others, and it demands time and patience. But leadership in the kingdom of God is worth the effort.

Something had snapped between us, and I had no idea how to glue it back together.

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

That's what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending- performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act

If I had to marry someone, it wouldn't be a bossy little gal with a tongue like barbed-wire and a mind about as narrow.

Wildly, he declared that she was a whore at heart, that she had always been a whore, that she had been one when he met her. That was not true. In her early working life, as a photographer's model and cocktail waitress, she had occasionally given herself to men and received gifts in return. But it wasn't the same as whoring. She had liked the men involved. What she gave them was given freely, without bargaining, as were their gifts to her.

That's what she keeps you around for, to diddle her fiddle. Because you're low-hung and she's high-strung!