Quotes About Partnership

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

We don't fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires.

I think it's a mistake if people just fall in love and think that that's the only thing you need to keep you happy. There's a lot more to being with someone than just love.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, persists after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

But duets are a lot of fun, I'd love to do another one

When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.

Love is what you make it and who you make it with.

The woman is the reflection of her man. If you love her to the point of madness, she will become it

A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

There is a distinction between a relationship which has a routine and a relationship which becomes routine

marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.

while their union could not be described as the perfect meeting of minds, neither enjoyed conflict within the home, and each held for the other such a healthy respect that they rarely allowed themselves an openly cross exchange, and knew each other's responses well enough after the best part of thirty years to usually avoid it.

We must try to trust one another. Stay and cooperate.

I have a lady, she's a great lady. I love her a lot, she loves me. We're on the same page. Whenever that day happens when we're not on the same page we'll move forward with it. We're interested in having our lives be our lives right now and not a third person's vis-a-vis marriage and whatever that means.

I am lucky in marriage and in dogs.

The beauty of herding sheep with dogs, isn't displaying or winning awards. I'd never entered Rose in any competition. It's the sense of wordless partnership, the moment where the dog's instincts and the herder's experience fuse into that moment, if she wasn't already there. She wasn't merely resting by the tree; she was sitting with her sheep, watching over them, staying among them, comfortable enough with herself and with them to be still.

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.

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It's not easy taking care of one's self, determining nap lengths and all that, but with two people it's a manageable job.

Yes, she would have been partial to men, perhaps she might even have confined herself to one man in particular, if only she had been able to find one who shared her view that intimacy between two people was of value irrespective of whether it led to sticky conflux.

But my main debt is to my wife Sarah, who provided a never failing source of encouragement in the bad days and a willing ear after the good ones. I have often been somewhat sceptical about author's protestations of gratitude to husband, wife, friend or whoever, without whom... Never again. To have a lived a life with someone whose thoughts are occupied by one topic to the exclusion of most other things is more than one can reasonably ask; it was certainly not in the original contract. (Preface)

The Theory of Sexual Understanding is mine. I created it. It works between a man and a woman. It's this: Everything's up to her.