Quotes About Relationships

I want the two million—or the five million, depending on whose scenario piques your fancy—to have themselves tested and know, so I will have people to talk to. Because after midnight and during weekends

You just can't endlessly be together.' It's a disaster, no matter who you are.

I don't live with people, that's why my relationships last. I'm not romantic. Even when I was a teenager if somebody asked if they could hold my hand I'd say, - no, it's not heavy, I can hold it myself, thank you'.

Even more important though, is the stress he places on our ability to create our relationships rather than to merely react to the various people and events that come into our lives. He points out that if we aren't creators, then we are habitual reactors.

most people looking for help with relationship problems react all day to the actions of other people and thereby generate their own negative reactions to people. This, he insists, is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed.

skill in dealing with emotions (yours and someone else's) and in communicating effectively on an interpersonal level.

As aspiring "winners" in recovery, we are not interested in defeating anyone. Or even in fighting. We have ceased fighting anything or anyone.10 Our interest lies in creating harmonious interpersonal relationships, in making potentially distressing situations better and in being peacemakers.

To accomplish this, we practice and develop skill in interpersonal communications.

Both must maintain their emotional independence in order to survive.

I had given Max a written declaration of emotional independence stating that she was no longer responsible for my feelings. Thereafter, I could no longer tell her, "You made me angry," or "I feel bad and it's your fault because of what you did (or said)." I also explained how, as a corollary, I was no longer responsible for her feelings. We both agreed that from now on we are each responsible for our own feelings.

They displayed more emotional independence, more emotional sobriety, more maturity. I, on the other hand, allowed a person whose actions I didn't like to control my emotional sobriety.

Thus, my life is essentially an on-going communication exercise—a continuous test of my communication skills. This is true for all of us—particularly when it comes to interpersonal relationships.

Since I have, by my behavior, taught them to treat me the way they are treating me, I can often, by changing my behavior, teach them to treat me differently.

The more you try to control another person, the more you are under that person's control." If how you feel or what you do next depends on what the person you are trying to control does or does not do next, then you are under that person's control.

Stop looking for love and start showing it.

Shut up and listen. Research shows that people who interrupt are three times more likely to die of a heart attack than those who don't and that marital relationships usually fail because of too much communication, not too little. Couples who spend a lot of time being quiet together stay together.

Lasting love is more a matter of learning to look outward at the world together than looking longingly eye-to-eye.   Love Conditionally. Healthy, lasting love is conditional, not unconditional. No one, including you, is love-worthy if she or he does not behave lovingly. Love is something you earn, not something you deserve. Worry more about being love-worthy than about your own self-worth.

We seldom say we love someone with all of our head, send brain-shaped candy on Valentine's Day, or tell our lover that we want to give our brain to them.

Everybody is damaged goods. Everybody got bumps and dents, ja? But sometimes two people fit together, and the bumps go into the dents, and you have a whole thing like a potato.

When dad is absent," she explained, "it basically provides young girls with a cue about what the future holds in terms of the mating system they are born into.

when parents have a strong alliance, children show fewer signs of stress, marital relationships are stronger, and children have better relationships with their peers.

All art is relationships, all art. Design is relationships. Design in a relationship between form and content... Your glasses are round. Your collar is diagonal. These are relationships. Your mouth is an oval. Your nose is a triangle - this is what design is.

Design is relationships. Design is a relationship between form and content.

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