Quotes About Bonding

Relationships are at the heart of your wellbeing and happiness. Nurture them and they will nurture you.

I cannot wait to stare into the face of my children and be in love.

If you need true friend 'a cup of tea can be' it gives you company, listen without complain and makes you fresh anytime, anywhere

To receive children's love and to come home to a child who runs to you with a hug, among the most powerful emotional experiences available.

I never realized before that taking care of someone makes you love them more than when they take care of you.

There is such a thing as crazy-mother bonding. . . . It happens when one realizes the other also has had a crazy mother, and it is both painful and pleasurable. There are more crazy mothers than you might think.

We were making good time now, barrelling through the bodacious curves of southeastern Utah and ignoring all impending signs of trouble with the van. At least I was. You guys happy? I said. The kids smiled at me like I was a dog chasing my tail, sweet but stupid, and looked away.

In the very early morning light I saw Nora and my mother sleeping, finally, on their sides and face to face, holding hands, all four hands entwined like a skein of wool, like a mating ball of garter snakes, so that whatever was inside them would be very well protected.

It's nice that you spend a day with your mother,' she said. Children should do it more often.

He had created a cocoon of human activities—conversation, interaction, affection—and it filled his life like an overflowing soup bowl.

If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.

Many boys, probably most boys, have a first love before they fall in love with a woman. It begins the moment two boys realize they'd die for one another, that each cares more for the other than he does for himself, and it lasts usually until a second love comes on the scene, because most hearts aren't big enough to love more than one person like that.

They were on a first-name basis now, united in female solidarity after a twenty-minute conversation about cats. How women cemented alliances over less than nothing impressed him anew.

Couples who are in love want to gaze into each other's eyes. Prolonged eye contact is one of the most powerful nonverbal ways we communicate interest in others. So

after supper Laurence would go to sit outside and read to him by the light of a lantern. He had never been a great reader himself, but Temeraire's pleasure in books was so great as to be infectious, and Laurence could not but think with satisfaction of the dragon's likely delight in the new book, which spoke in great detail about gemstones and their mining, despite his own complete lack of interest in the subject.

I'm glad you and Chloe have become friends," in an alarmingly hopeful way that was very clearly only one unfortunate literature assignment away from turning into come live with me and be my love, optionally etched onto metal with little hearts around it.

That afternoon he invited me to his house for an after-school snack and showed me his collection of strange gadgets made from bits of scrap metal, which he kept in his room.

As Mother headed the car for the highway, she said, You two sure got quiet in the back seat. I thought you'd be telling Jo Dee and Brian good-bye all the way across the bridge. Michele and Michael giggled. We are, they said, as they perched on their knees facing out the back window. They each gave the skull and crossbones sign and Jo Dee and Brian returned it.

a trouble shared is a trouble halved'.

Oh, honey, that's what friends are for—to share in the joys and half the sorrows." Dotty smiled.

Carol wants to get some new clothes," Nancy explained. "Want to help?" "You bet!" Bess and George answered. When the store closed that evening, the four girls left it chatting merrily and laden with bundles. Carol had been outfitted from head to toe in attractive clothes. Her hair had been trimmed and modishly combed at the beauty salon. She looked very lovely and seemed to have gained self-confidence.

If you'll trust me, I'll give you a week you'll never forget.

what a luxury it was for people to be able to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted.

You showed me that doing simple things are all you need as long as you're doing them with someone who wants to be with you.