Quotes About Relationship

I want my time to be taken up by chores, errands, appointments, and arguments. In other words, I want to get married.

It's true, I can't make you love me. But I can refuse to let you out of your cage.

I've often wondered what makes a relationship last. I guess the best answer is it's the one right after the next to the last one.

His heart wants to be tied to another heart, even by deep stitches.

To feel that you aren't important to your mother leaves a hole. Most often it is felt as a hole in the heart. It's the hole where Mother was supposed to be.

In the pairs of mothers and their adult children that I have seen, mothers who cared for their children out of obligation are then cared for in their elderly years by their adult children out of a similar obligation.

Feeling valued and known are also part of this belonging. If a family claims you as their own but you don't really feel that they know you or see you for who you are, you'll feel like an outsider within your own family.

It is as if, even within the privacy of our own minds, we are afraid to criticize her. We are protecting the image of mother inside, protecting our fragile relationship with her by denying anything that might unsettle it, and protecting ourselves from the disappointment, anger, and pain that we've kept out of consciousness.

I apparently held a belief that if I expressed my anger, I would destroy our bond forever. The relationship was not ruined; in fact, it was strengthened. But I had no reference, no previous experience to tell me this could be so. I had never dared express my anger at my family and had a marked lack of experience in this process of rupture and repair.

Just by gazing into the child's eyes, the mother communicates brain to brain with her child, bringing the child's limbic system into coherence with hers. (This is helpful when Mother is in a positive, regulated state but not when she is fussy and upset herself.)

Woke up in bed with a gorgeous woman, who I'm going to have lunch and the rest of my life with.

With an eye trained for finding this God, an ear tuned to his voice, we learn to find him again and again. Every beloved loves her lover in his specificity—his face, his hands, his voice— and love leads her to "act in all respect and regulate her every movement in a manner designed to please the man she loves".

God, on Christian lights, isn't just high, lofty, far away, distant, unsullied with us. God, in Christian thought, is Jewish. Human. Not just great and holy but little and lowly. ... God becomes our neighbour. ... If it takes a neighbour's desire to set ours alight, then the one living and true God will become that flesh-and-blood neighbour.

The last time I thanked my wife, Nancy-Ann, for enduring the tribulations of being a book writer's spouse, I kept it simple, noting only that she was the best thing that had ever happened to me. She still is.

pamamanhikan,

When Filipinos want to express deep appreciation, they say they have an utang na loob—a debt of gratitude.

The right relationship won't distract you from God. It will bring you closer to Him.

When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, and goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her.

Authentic femininity is a combination of class, tenderness and virtue. When a woman possesses these traits, a man will naturally want to be more of a gentleman around her.

If you are currently in a relationship in which you are also willing to 'do anything to make him happy,' even at your own expense, I want you to stop reading our book. Mark this page, close the book, and hit yourself over the head with it. Then continue reading.

Even as you seek a virtuous, fair, and good spouse,... it is fitting that you should be the same. —Saint Bernardino of Siena

The wife must love her husband as if there were no other man in the world, in much the same way as the husband should love her as if no other woman existed.

All too often, women fall in love with a man's speech and overlook who he actually is. If you think you might already be dating such a guy, take a step back and ask yourself: "Is my boyfriend doing what's best for me, or just doing what feels good for him?

Don't ignore your conscience or give up on the deepest desires of your heart. If you're in an unhealthy relationship, get out. Don't squander your life trying to change a guy or hoping he will miraculously improve. You're better than that.