Quotes About Relationship

Like it or not, males have a tendency to wander a little bit. What you want to do is make a home so wonderful that he doesn't want to wander.

I'm a dude, obviously, and when I'm not in a relationship, I don't do laundry until I want to. But if I live with a girl, you have to do it when she wants to or when we want to, which sucks.

The best way I can get understanding from another person is to give this person the understanding, too. If I want them to hear my needs and feelings, I first need to empathize.

I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn't want stalkers.

Freud found that the most central childhood problems regularly surface not in discussion but in disguised form in the analytic relationship. It

Why didn't you make me good enough...so you could have loved me?

Mistress: something between a mister and a mattress.

Christ says he is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. We want to be sure he is with us in everything we do, especially as we're trying to bring anything like Christ's healing to a relationship.

Like Shelley, in order to change and engage the process of trust building, I, too, needed to come to terms with the truth that God was ultimately the change agent and healer. He is the true trust builder. He is the master architect and artist shaping any sculpture. If both Shelley and I lean on him for our journey of rebuilding our relationship, then neither of us must lean against each other.

If two people are honest with each other, there is no kind of woe they can't survive.

Fixing a broken relationship is all about loving and giving from a heart filled with God's compassionate presence.

To get a relationship out of the pits, talk with the other person.

If you're feeling regret about something you did or said to someone, please talk with that person. Tell them you're feeling bad. Let them do for you what people really enjoy doing for others: relieving someone of regret.

Usually when a husband expresses that he doesn't love his wife, he is making a statement about his own shame. He is grasping at straws and trying to make sense of his own behavior. This particular logic says, "If I am willing to hurt her this badly, over and over again, then I must not love her." For some guys it's easier to stomach the explanation of "falling out of love" or "I must not have truly loved her anyway" than

Every attitude we assume, ever word we utter, and every act we undertake establishes us in relation to others.

I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with someone even if they could have. I need to know these people exist.

No, my mom kind of led me toward acting. She wanted to be an actress when she was younger. That made me interested in it when I was a kid, because she and I are very close.

There are a few writers that one has a relationship with that means, basically, you do whatever they say. One is Caryl Churchill, and the other is David Hare.

He held her like a new woman and what she felt felt almost as good as love had, and each of them called it love because precision didn't matter anymore.

Signals always point to something. In this sense, a signal is not a thing but a relationship. Data becomes useful knowledge of something that matters when it builds a bridge between a question and an answer. This connection is the signal.

What I was doing was making deals. With the world. I'll take care of you, you take care of me, cool?

He delivers the mail, she brings the planes in, and they meet at the end of the day over tofu and beans, compare notes, and, like last night, work out their kinks on the court.

To live in right relationship with Creation means honoring the creation of the body itself, recognizing its inherent sacred nature, and developing a deep, trustworthy relationship with it. For there is only one place in all the Universe that has been made especially for you, and that is inside your own body.

Our relationship to food is a microcosm of all that we have learned about loving and being loved, about our self-worth. It is the stage upon which we reenact our childhood. If we were abused, we will abuse ourselves with food. The degree to which we are violent, abusive, self-punishing is in proportion to the degree of violence, abuse, and punishment we received. We learned how to do it by having it done to us.2