Quotes About Relationship

Children are seriously children for about a decade. But for five or more decades after that, they will be your friend - if you're fortunate to like each other.

If the relationship has been a source of comfort, it also deserves your seeing that it continue to be a source of satisfying self-expansion.

Angela has a boyfriend. Actually, he's a friend with benefits." "What's that?" Grandma said. "It means she likes him, and she sleeps with him sometimes when she feels like it." "In my day, we called that a husband," Grandma said.

Boyfriend. This is such a weird word. There's no good word about someone if you're not married. Even calling a guy you live with your boyfriend makes you sound eleven years old. Old man? If you're not living with Willie Nelson, that one doesn't work, either.

Marriage: A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other for ninety-nine years, or until death do them join.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls into the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El amor que regalamos es el único amor que mantenemos" (Elbert Hubbard)

But it is not that easy, is it? I seek a lasting relationship, something permanent in a world of change, in which all is transitory, ephemeral, and full of pain.

A relationship] takes time and deeds, and this involves trust, it involves making ourselves naked, to become sitting ducks for each other.

The word narcissism in its most fundamental sense means a tendency to self-worship. For the narcissist, his excessive self-absorption is a protection against unconscious but powerful feelings of inadequacy. Seduced by the narcissist's camouflage of outer charm or confidence, you are eventually drawn into the nightmare side of this relationship. By the time you realize that something is wrong, the cumulative effects can range from bruised self-esteem to severe depression.

that the number one predictor for the long-term success ofany relationship is how well the couple is able to handle conflict.

the general rules of reciprocity are not working with the NPD person. The relationship begins to operate more and more on his terms as if these are the only terms.

painful truth that, without outside help, the codependent partner will accommodate to the functional level of the less healthy partner.

Aunt Polly is all stirred up over it. You see, she wants Uncle Tom to have what he wants, only she wants him to want what she wants him to want. See?" Mrs. Carew laughed suddenly. (22)

When she got pregnant—he refused to wear a condom, perhaps for religious reasons—he sent her money for an abortion

Understanding is a two-way street.

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love.

I cannot go to bed tonight without a word to you. I felt a little as though a part of me was leaving tonight. You have grown so much to be a part of my life that it is empty without you.

No relationship in this world ever remains warm and close unless a real effort is made on both sides to keep it so.

Why no!" I cried, astonished. "Adela marry! You might as well suspect a faded lettuce of falling in love.

What a mistake, above all, it had been to believe that I couldn't live without him, when for a long time I had not been at all certain that I was alive with him.

my river of words and her silence seemed to demonstrate that my life was splendid but uneventful, which left me time to write to her every day, while hers was dark but full