Quotes About Relationship

I'm no longer a potential food source but a partner in the journey. I share my life and they share their knowledge.

I'm the one who's dating the craft-service guy instead of the producer. Plus, if a producer is going to date a hot young thing, I'm probably not the first person on their list - the weird, quirky, funny girl.

In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person.

And you have fixed my life — however short. You did not light me: I was always a mad comet; but you have fixed me. I spun round you a satellite for a month, but I shall swing out soon, a dark star in the orbit where you will blaze.

Benim en ?iddetli korkular?mdan biri, a?k?n gittikçe daha güçlü bir biçimde tedarik i?lerine kaymas?yd?; öyle ki sonunda geriye sadece tedarik kal?yor, a?k uçup gitmi? oluyordu.

Onlarca y?l daha iyi bir ya?am için haz?rlanm??t?m" dedim "ama bu asla gerçekle?medi. ?nsan?n kendi felaketiyle ili?kisinin onu beklemekten ibaret oldu?unu kavray?ncaya kadar uzun süre duygusal ve melankolik bir halde yak?n?p durdum

Üzüntümle öylesine kayna?m???m ki" diyorum, "böylesine sarma? dola? bir karde?lik hakk?nda konu?maya al???k de?ilim

People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For that reason alone, it is extremely mean to demand a marriage certificate for life, just for one night of embracement.

Kad?n?m? elimde bir evlenme cüzdan? oldu?u için ya da cinsel açl?ktan k?vrand???m için de?il, onu sevdi?im ve istedi?im için kucaklar?m.

dokunman?n yo?un oldu?u bir ili?kide, iki insan kendilerini birbirlerine kal?c? bir biçimde ba?l? hissederler. arzulanan dokunu?lar?n aç??a ç?kard??? enerjiler, doyurucu bir hayat için vazgeçilemeyecek kadar üretkindirler. O nedenle birçoklar?nda öyle büyüktür, dokunma özlemi. (dokunman?n gücü üzerine, 10)

dokunman?n önemi öyle büyüktür ki, handiyse antropolojik diye tan?mlayabiliriz onu: insan olmak, ona ba?l?d?r. her bireyin hayat?nda iyice diplere at?lm?? bir çapad?r bu tecrübe: dokunuyor ve dokunuluyorsam, duyusal olarak, ruhsal olarak, zihinsel olarak ve ola ki a?k?n anlamda da, ya??yorumdur. Dokunma olmadan hayat? hissedemem. p.17

Dawes showed that marital stability is well predicted by a formula: frequency of lovemaking minus frequency of quarrels

Because of the halo effect, we get the causal relationship backward: we are prone to believe that the firm fails because its CEO is rigid, when the truth is that the CEO appears to be rigid because the firm is failing. This is how illusions of understanding are born.

In a memorable example, Dawes showed that marital stability is well predicted by a formula: frequency of lovemaking minus frequency of quarrels You don't want your result to be a negative number.

regression inevitably occurs when the correlation between two measures is less than perfect

Recall that the correlation between two measures—in the present case reading age and GPA—is equal to the proportion of shared factors among their determinants.

the long-term success of a relationship depends far more on avoiding the negative than on seeking the positive. Gottman estimated that a stable relationship requires that good interactions outnumber bad interactions by at least 5 to 1. Other asymmetries in the social domain are even more striking. We all know that a friendship that may take years to develop can be ruined by a single action.

The explanation is a simple availability bias: both spouses remember their own individual efforts and contributions much more clearly than those of the other, and the difference in availability leads to a difference in judged frequency. The bias is not necessarily self-serving: spouses also overestimated their contribution to causing quarrels, although to a smaller extent than their contributions to more desirable outcomes. The

neither of us ever rejected out of hand anything the other said.

Matrimonio. El secreto está en que, a pesar de todo, nos queremos. Yo no querría vivir sin ella: echaría de menos hasta su risa de actriz. Ni ella sin mí. Si no nos crispáramos tanto los nervios el uno al otro… Vete mientras

To my surprise, I find the most relevant commentary on a marriage that continues into the sunset years comes from the radical German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who, in an atypically practical frame of mind, wrote, 'When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everthing else in marriage is transitory.

Being truly human and living in community are inseparable. This wisdom is beautifully captured in an African proverb: "I am human only because you are human."13

these conversations typically lead quite quickly to

Our parents are mysterious to us in ways that we can never quite be mysteries to them.