Quotes About Relationship

Showing true love through forgiveness is liberating and fulfilling. — Bobby Lewis —

physical touch is his primary love language and words of affirmation is his secondary love language. The reason I suggest the second is that if he complains about negative words, apparently positive words would be meaningful to him.

Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends. —Revelation 3:20

Follow this pattern of asking for feedback once a month for the entire six months. Whenever Glenn gives you the first positive response, you will know that your efforts are getting through to him emotionally. One week after you receive the first positive feedback, I want you to make a request of Glenn—something that you would like him to do, something in keeping with your primary love language.

There are "friends" who destroy each other, but a real friend sticks closer than a brother. —Proverbs 18:24

After studying scores of couples, she concluded that the average life span of a romantic obsession is two years.

the average life span of a romantic obsession is two years.

Physical presence in the time of crisis is the most powerful gift you can give if your spouse's primary love language is receiving gifts

Everyone who makes up proverbs will say of you, "Like mother, like daughter." —Ezekiel 16:44

Your words may give your spouse the courage necessary to take that first step.

Feeling loved by a spouse enhances our sense of significance. We reason, If someone loves me, I must have significance.

So if you are presenting a sacrifice at the altar in the Temple and you suddenly remember that someone has something against you, leave your sacrifice there at the altar. Go and be reconciled to that person. Then come and offer your sacrifice to God. —Matthew 5:23–24

After the wedding, I don't think I changed. I continued to express love to her as I had before marriage. I told her how beautiful she was. I told her how much I loved her. I told her how proud I was to be her husband.

We love each other because he loved us first. —1 John 4:19

I love you. I care about you, and I choose to forgive you. Even though my feelings of hurt may linger, I will not allow what has happened to come between us. I hope that we can learn from this experience. You are not a failure because you have failed. You are my spouse, and together we will go on from here." Those are the words of affirmation expressed in the dialect of kind words.

Releasing the person is not forgiveness. Forgiveness is a response to confession. It is rather a releasing of my hurt and anger so that I am no longer consumed by them. It is choosing to love people in spite of the wrong they have done to me. It does not restore the relationship, but it does allow me to live my life in peace and love toward others.

Love is a choice. And either partner can start the process today.

My sense of self-worth is fed by the fact that my spouse loves me. After all, if she loves me, I must be worth loving. My parents may have given me negative or mixed messages about my worth, but my spouse knows me as an adult and loves me. her love builds my self-esteem.

include others in our plans. — Mark Littleton —

Don't worry about your savings. You will always be a saver, but to invest in loving your spouse is to invest in blue-chip stocks.

Jesus repeated the question: "Simon son of John, do you love me?" "Yes, Lord," Peter said, "you know I love you." "Then take care of my sheep," Jesus said. —John 21:16

love Him. — Brian Varney —

We agreed there was no benefit to our living together any longer, so we split.

A friendship is an investment that can yield great dividends over the long run. — Julie Durham —