Quotes About Relationships

It's the friends that make you survive this flat place called the Midwest.

I really believe that the more distractions and fixes I remove from my life, the better I'll feel about myself. The biggest of those is Depeche Mode. It's the one marriage that survived, but I'm not sure it works - for me, anyway. Jumping on a plane to go somewhere else and be told how wonderful I am doesn't feel good any more.

I've been married a couple of times and survived!

There was no way the marriages could have survived. Nor do I regret that they didn't.

I'm not playing 'Survivor' when someone I love has cancer.

I realize more and more I miss my 'Survivor' friends when I'm not around them.

It's sad that grandkids show up at the end of obituaries, way behind the list of work place achievements, social clubs and survivors. Why last? If you've got grandkids, you know they're first when it comes to the joy in your life.

I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin.

I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy childhood. My mother was overly sensitive; my father, ascetic. I was neither. I felt as if I were living with complete strangers. I suspect that my parents felt the same way.

I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.

I suspect I wasn't loved enough as a child.

I wish I had a filter; then, I'd suspect, who knows? I'd perhaps have more friends.

But I also wanted to give them an intelligent emotional journey, without having to suspend reality - to be able to look at those characters and see reasons for the relationships and why what happens happens.

Campaigns are these moments of suspended animation where people usually learn how to be friends afterward.

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.

I have matured as a man to understand where my suspicion of women comes from and how that has everything to do with me and nothing to do with them. I have to deal with that.

I don't get jealous - I get suspicious.

I couldn't date someone who didn't like dogs. There are exceptions to the rule, but I find that if someone doesn't like animals, I am a little suspicious of them.

I'm so suspicious of boys-slash-men. I just don't like them or trust them.

I'm always suspicious when a guy takes his date on a walk, because it reeks of poverty and an inability to plan.

Apparently only a third of us know our partners phone PIN, so the majority of people keep it secret. I find that really surprising, I think if my husband's PIN was secret I'd be so suspicious of what he was hiding.

By itself, love is never enough to sustain a relationship.

Couples need time alone to renew their relationship. They also need to sustain supportive networks of friends and family.