Quotes About Relationship

I cheated with Rachel, but I'll never cheat on Rachel.

But certainly not everyday you can find someone who wants to have a monogamous relationship

As I listen to Darcy breathing in the dark beside me, I wonder how we got to this. How we could be in love with the same person. How I coudl be sabotaging my best friend's engagement. In the final seconds before sleep, I wish I could go back and undo everything, give those little girls another chance.

You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can wind up focusing on misleading factors. Stuff that has really has more to do with personality- the fact that some people are simply more expressive or emotional or needy in a relationship. But beyond such smokescreens, the answer is there. Love is seldom- almost never -even proposition. Someone always loves more.

As of that moment, we had a secret, and having a secret—even a little one—creates a bond between two people.

I just think that I screwed up what could have turned into a more significant relationship, or at least a lasting friendship.

But I cherished our filterless relationship and considered it the truest measure of a best friend, greater than pure affection. Who was the person you trusted enough to be your most transparent self with, in both good times and bad?

I don't love him, period. I didn't love him before this. I cared about him. And I wanted to love him. Maybe I could have grown to love him. But those feelings just weren't there. I liked the idea of him. It was exciting. He was exciting. Too exciting.

And yet, there is nobody I'd rather talk to, be near, look at, than my husband, an unprecedented feeling that overcame me the moment we met.

After all, you reach the mundane, comfortable moments only when a relationship is working. When it's not working, the passion morphs into something twisted and dark. Drama. Jealousy. A never-ending power struggle.

Being married cuts on your freedom. Having a husband or a relationship at all puts constraints on you. by Michael.

and more important, did he love me as much as he once loved me?

We have no relationship without honesty. - by Claude

I felt myself tense up, having long noticed that this was something men (and boys, obviously) did after any breakup. Dub their exes "crazy." Discredit them, make it seem as if the men were lucky to have gotten out of the relationship. In fact, Julie had once told me it was the most common narrative in the aftermath of a divorce—the justification men used for their own misconduct. A form of misogyny.

Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all.

When you are in a relationship, you are aware that it might end. You might grow apart, find someone else, simply fall out of love. But a friendship isn't a zero-sum game, and as such, you assume that it will last forever, especially an old friendship. You take its permanence for granted, which might be the very thing so dear about it.

We all agree that there is no bright-line litmus test for what works in marriage, or what happiness looks like. That it all comes down to the two people inside the relationship.

I just had a word with him. Timmers and I have this little understanding. He behaves himself and he gets to keep his front teeth.

Maybe I'm a human, but I'm a me-and-Ma as well.

So then she took me home, or I took her home, or we were both somehow taken to the closest thing.

where there's one there's ten.' That's crazy math.

I didn't forget a day of you either.

I finally accept that not only do I not understand the death of my relationship, but I do not need to. These men were good and kind to me, they loved me and I loved them back and the shock at the finish holds no wisdom. The revelation is not that I lost them, but that I had them.

You could be together forever, but one of you is going to have to go first. I want it to last. I love him and I want it to stay.