Quotes About Relationships

A couple's emotional life together and their physical life together each have their ebbs and flows, their ups and downs, but these don't always correspond.

No history has a more lasting effect on our adult loves than the one we write with our primary caregivers.

As for the general public, we tend to judge the "other woman" far more harshly than the cheating husband.

These are not simply naive, lonely, desperate women who'll take love in whatever form they can get it. In fact, they are pragmatic about their reasons for choosing to not only live with a secret but be a secret.

I have met plenty of men who were the lovers of married women (or married men, for that matter). But I have yet to meet a man who was single and gave his love to another man's wife for thirty years, hoping that she would leave and come and make a family with him.

Clearly Andrea prefers to be the adored other woman than the avoided wife. Yes, there are trade-offs, but there are also benefits.

Being a mistress suited Rose—in the words of novelist Susan Cheever, "I had my freedom and I was someone else's fantasy.

A term used by Terry Real is quite apt for such affairs: stable ambiguity. These are relationships of undefined status but well-established patterns, hard to break out of but just as hard to depend on. By remaining in a diffuse state, people avoid both loneliness and commitment. This strange mix of comforting consistency and uncertainty is increasingly common to relationships in the age of Tinder, but it's long been characteristic of extramarital liaisons.

I do believe that the emphasis on egalitarian and respectful sex—purged of any expressions of power, aggression, and transgression—is antithetical to erotic desire for men and women alike.

For me, infidelity includes one or more of these three constitutive elements: secrecy, sexual alchemy, and emotional involvement.

The adherents of talk intimacy (often, though not always, women) have a hard time recognizing these other languages for closeness

In fact, I can imagine that the level of dissociation that they bring to their sexual fixes is a direct response to all these uncomfortable emotional pulls. I would suggest that precisely because male sexuality is so relational, many guys seek sexual spaces that are the exact opposite, where they don't have to confront the litany of fears, anxieties, and insecurities that would render the biggest stallion limp.

Emotional involvement is the third element that may play a role in infidelity. Most affairs register an emotional component, to one degree or another.

The connectors have gained the upper hand. We isolationists languish in the caves. Take

Those who cannot easily forgive will not collect many friends. Look for the best in others and yourself.

Watching love die: that's an ornery armor-piercing bullet. When taking the kids to school, the laundry, and the dishes rain down on the last remaining coals of your romance like piss on a morning campfire. When all you're left with is enough smoke to choke on. Then your heart is dead.

THE quality of your life will, to a large extent, be decided by with whom you elect to spend your time.

De ene mens mag de andere nooit tot middelpunt van zijn leven maken.

And perhaps it didn't matter to them, not always, what they read aloud; it was the breath of life flowing between them, and the words of the moment riding on it that held them in delight. Between some two people every word is beautiful, or might as well be beautiful.

For her life, any life, she had to believe, was nothing but the continuity of its love.

For there is hate as well as love, she supposed, in the coming together and continuing of our lives.

I've always been shy physically. This in part tended to keep me from rushing into things, including relationships, headlong. Not rushing headlong, though I may have wanted to, but beginning to write stories about people, I drew near slowly; noting and guessing, apprehending, hoping, drawing my eventual conclusions out of my own heart, I did venture closer to where I wanted to go.

Surely even those immune from the world, for the time being, need the touch of one another, or all is lost.

Don't ever let this husband of yours, whoever he is, know you can cook, Dabney Fairchild, or you'll spend the rest of your life in the kitchen. That's the first thing I want to tell you.