Quotes About Vulnerability

Relationship is a mirror.. Every moment the other reveals you, exposes you. The closer the relationship, the clearer is the mirror.

I've been single for so long that I'm scared of being in a relationship.

You were standin' way too close to see it fall apart. And there were things you couldn't hear, 'cause you were listening with your heart.

I think I've developed this pattern of running away when it comes time to fall in love and stay in a relationship.

How do you conduct an intimate relationship where no one ever loses it? Where no one ever lashes out, where no one ever smacks anyone in the mouth?

I am interested in the complicated choreography of close relationships.

An intimate relationship is one that allows you to be yourself.

See, that was the problem in relationships when emotion began muddying the waters. It was as if (Lexie) expected him to do or say exactly the right thing at exactly the right time, whatever that was.

Honesty and vulnerability endear us to people; they don't endanger us in our relationship.

I'd say the key to a good relationship is communication .

Chicken, yeah, that's me. I'd rather fight an old rogue-vamp in my underwear, with my bare hands, than deal with relationship problems.

In an ongoing relationship, each current criticism packs the punches of all the others that have gone before.

If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.

Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.

It should be easy for a man who's strong to say he's sorry or admit when he's wrong.

This isn't fair. I tell you guys everything. I don't hold back anything." "Believe me, I know," Della said. "I know more about you and Perry's relationship than the law allows.

An unresolved issue will be like a cancer with the potential to spread into other areas of your relationship, eroding the joy, lightness, love and beauty.

The definition of a relationship is like a shower. You walk in when it is cold, and comes out when it is too hot.

There is nothing more secure in a relationship than a sense of insecurity.

Relationships survive on trust, and if that is broken at any point, it's pretty much the end of the relationship. Besides, inability to communicate leads to problems.

A romantic relationship requires honesty between a couple.

Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and the storm within.

We have to find the back door to peoples' hearts because the front door is heavily guarded.

You're only as sick as your secrets.