Quotes About Partnership

women who get the most participation from men are those who are comfortably assertive in their expectations of that participation.8 If you feel overly responsible or guilt-ridden about wanting your husband to pull his weight, you'll be at the mercy of his goodwill. This is not where you want to be in the modern-day, stressed-out marriage where everybody's trying to steal a few minutes of down time.

The joy of intimacy is the reward of commitment.

For a relationship to work, their needs to be comprimise on both sides

Granted, your hard-working hubby is doing his fair share just by bringing home the bacon. But by encouraging him to take on a couple of those tasks himself, he'll soon have more respect for all you do on your family's behalf. If his excuse for turning you down is that he's "too tired" or that "it's women's work," there is a simple way to convince him otherwise: food poisoning.

Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively.

In its purest form, dating is auditioning for mating (and auditioning means we may or may not get the part).

We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

the idea of having for one's partner a person whose presence in the room transformed it for you—someone who felt that way about you—seemed the only thing worth pursuing. If you couldn't have that, you'd do better on your own. Before

Not until we learned of his illness, and we walked the path of that terrible struggle together, did I understand what it meant to be a couple - to be a true partner and to have one. I learned the full meaning of marriage only as mine was drawing to a close. I discovered what love was as mine departed the world. This is our story.

El noventa por ciento del trabajo es estar junto a quien tienes que estar. El otro diez por ciento, se improvisa sobre la marcha.

but Robert was so much better than any of the other men Dougless had dated that she forgave him his little quirks—most

To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.

What I respect about you and what I need from you.

Your soul mate can become your cell mate" if both of you are not dedicated to mutual growth and authenticity. It's

Friends can be the best co-conspirators in charting the unknown.

One advantage of marriage is that when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again.

Gerhard voelde dankbaarheid. Hij was dankbaar voor Jules bestaan, voor iedere minuut van haar aanwezigheid, voor ieder woord dat ze tot hem sprak. Hij had het gevoel dat hij geen recht op Jule had, en dat gevoel was, erkende ze al gauw, de enige fatsoenlijke basis voor een gelijkwaardige relatie tussen man en vrouw

We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time.

Suddenly I'd found myself past thirty, shacked up with a fussy bald man nine years my senior who enjoyed monitoring every facet of our household—finances, thermostat, hot-water heater, water and electricity usage, lawn maintenance, and pest control.

Every unmarried man is looking for a wife. They just don't always know it.

You're mine," he said, his eyes never leaving hers as he slid inside. "You're mine." And much later, when they were exhausted and spent, lying in each other's arms, he brought his lips to her ear and whispered, "And I'm yours.