Quotes About Relationship

That night (as on all nights), when the lights get turned out, Don and I lie on our backs side by side with his left hand cradling my right. "I worry that this sickness is taking over your life, Bear," I murmur in the dark now permeated by a bathroom nightlight he has just affixed. "I have no other life," he responds while gently stroking my fingers. "I don't know what to hope for," I whisper. "Let's hope for a good summer," he says.

Whenever I want a really nice meal, I start dating again.

Hugh had led men into battle with success and was on reasonably good terms with the king, though they would never be intimates; in any case, his father had been so close to his king that this would probably have to suffice for whole generations of Dipensers.

Dutch Bill took politeness on my part for something else and asked to marry

he told me, married and with a child of his own.

Sincere religious faith is both a relationship and a love affair. That is one of the many reasons atheism is not a religion.

He should have left long ago. He actually did once – or nearly did, but Zelda pulled him back. Not that he needed any persuasion with her warm, welcoming body the ultimate Nirvana and his libido operating within the very narrow range of sex, sex, and more sex.

It's a duel between us, a long-standing matchup that has defined our relationship over the years: fighting to hide the emotions, but knowing exactly what the other is feeling, and battling to not be the first to break.

To really experience true contact with another person, you must enter a realm of uncertainty together.

secure attachment bond is the "primary defense against trauma induced psychopathology

Love me. Be with me." "That's enough?" "That's plenty.

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You're treating your relationship with God like a fling. As it means nothing to Him and nothing to you. As if you can walk away from each other. But God doesn't operate that way.

We love, simply because we're loved. God's love comes first, and ours is just a response. We didn't trigger it - He did.

He thought she'd slow him down. He could barely keep up with her.

How she loved a man who would fit his life around the seasoning needs of a fish.

don't judge God based on your understanding of people. God isn't just a really good guy up in the sky. He is God. He operates on an entirely different set of rules. We'll never deserve His love, but He knows that, and He's chosen to love us anyway. We can accept it or not. But that doesn't change who He is. He's a God who loves us more than we can imagine and desires to fulfill the dreams He gives His children.

But I've long believed that marriage isn't just for our joy, but to make us stronger, better people. To change us into the people God wants us to be. And we do that through better . . . and worse.

I don't even know what intimacy is, Pastor." "It's belonging and believing and being loving to each other. It's vulnerability to the one person you trust most. It's saying, 'Here's my ugly, battered, wounded heart. I'm going to let you see it and trust you with it.' Did you ever let her see your grief?

Who said marriage and intimacy—the way God wants them to be, a depiction of His intimate love for us—would be easy? Marriage is not a conditional act. It's loving no matter what. It's how we're supposed to be with God—trusting Him with all our fragile parts.

When you forgive someone, it gives you room in your heart to love them.

How had she ever thought sleeping with him would be a stress reliever, when he was the biggest producer of her stress?

When Devon Donovan's family buys Isabelle Cooper's florist shop as an investment, she isn't sure if it's the worst thing that could happen…or her golden opportunity to get the gorgeous billionaire to finally notice her.

Papa said marriage is not kept by affection but by a pledge. Affection does not beget the pledge; the pledge begets the affection. When you share a life and a home and a bed with someone, you become soul mates as surely as cream and effort produce butter....And so I began to imagine my life with James Luddy. I imagined being butter.