Quotes About Relationships

To keep the score even in a relationship, a man really doesn't require anything but love. Women

Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed…. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished.

love. If a stranger rejects you, it has little effect, but when someone you care about rejects you, it can be so painful that, to protect ourselves, we withdraw and close our hearts as we automatically put up walls and defenses.

The greatest emotional pain we can experience in life occurs when we stop sharing our love with the people we love the most.

Relationships do not have to be such a struggle. Only when we do not understand one another is there tension, resentment, or conflict.

Regarding finding a date, dating, living together, and the engagement process, I wrote Mars and Venus on a

When a man can listen to a woman's feelings without getting angry and frustrated, he gives her a wonderful gift.

Men primarily need a kind of love that is trusting, accepting, and appreciative. Women primarily need a kind of love that is caring, understanding, and respectful.

I borrowed the term from a particular American Indian tradition. When a bride married her husband, her mother told her that after marriage, at the end of the day, a man would withdraw into his cave. At those times, don't go in his cave or you will be burned by his dragon. She was referring of course to a man's anger.

Similarly, if he is watching a game to forget his problems but his wife disapproves of his actions, the feeling that he is letting her down can prevent him from rebuilding his testosterone levels.

You cannot, nor should you every try to, change your partner.

I hear women say this. Instead women would often complain: He doesn't listen; he is inattentive; he is no longer romantic; he doesn't complement me; he is less affectionate; or he is self-centered. When considering divorce, a woman would say, "I give and give, but I don't get back. I have nothing left to give." This is a far cry from a man's basic frustration that his wife is just not happy and as a result he feels like giving up.

Use this book to let yourself or your partner ease up on each other, and you will be using it to create more love in your life. Above all else, love is giving, compassionate, and forgiving. If these insights help you to keep your heart open, then they have served their purpose.

How had I missed this? She just needed me to go over and hold her. Another woman would have instinctively known what Bonnie needed. But as a man, I didn't know that touching, holding, and listening were so important to her. By recognizing these differences I began to learn a new way of relating to my wife. I would have never believed we could resolve conflict so easily.

And you've never been married, right?" "Correct." "Well, I've tried it twice and I'm not sure I can recommend it.

Nor did she like society's way of presuming she was unhappy because she had not found the right guy.

You know what they say—the reason divorce is so expensive is because it's worth it.

Most of his pals did not understand how it was possible to have a friend who was a girl but not actually a girlfriend. Theo had grown weary of trying to explain this. It was complicated.

Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler, one of my favorites, and LaRose by Louise Erdrich.

the reason divorce is so expensive is because it's worth it.

I have neither the talent nor the patience for the usual mating rituals—the stalking, the accidental encounters, the blind dates, the silly gifts, the awkward phone calls, the referrals from friends, the endless Internet chatting. Nor do I have the guts to go online and lie about myself to strange women. And, I fear I'm forever scorched and gun-shy from the Judith disaster. How can one human possess so much meanness? Naomi

Theo could think of nothing but April and of her miserable home life, her warring parents, her scarred brother and sister

Oh well. Part of being single was dealing with the misconceptions of others.

Wait, how did she know I would be with you?" "It's a small town, Samantha.