Quotes About Compatibility

Men don't realize that if we're sleeping with them on the first date, we're probably not interested in seeing them again either.

Anyone who's a great kisser, I'm always interested in.

Even if it was not a love match for either of them.

so long as you stay in a relationship that isn't meeting your needs, you're in a relationship that isn't meeting your needs.

True intimacy isn't a psychodrama. It isn't the "highest highs and lowest lows". It's communion and mellow compatibility. It's friendship and mutual respect.

I still can't entirely explain why I needed to leave my ex. I was tortured by this very question for years because I felt like such an ass for breaking his heart and I was so shattered I'd broken my own. I was too young to commit myself to one person. We weren't as compatible as we initially seemed.

Hell, we're already more compatible than Cory and I ever were." "You mean she hasn't tried to stave in your head with an ashtray or cut off your balls with a butcher knife?

Exactly. There's nothing wrong with him. But he doesn't have like, any wow or thrill factor. You are choosing a husband. Not taking an amusement park ride for thrills.

I have found out there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

She'd thought love was painful and agonizing and all about not good enough . But it was about fitting so well with someone that everything felt bright and crisp and right.

I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.

Laura's problem was that she kept casting men in roles they weren't suited for. Like lovely Josh, casting him in the role of decent, kind house-husband, the perfect partner, the modern male, when - what was it that she'd actually loved about him, really? Laura tried to think, and couldn't come up with an answer. He was a great man - kind, funny, clever, hard working - but there was no way he was the man for her, she realised now. Why hadn't she seen it?

Imago match, that chemical reaction occurs, and love ignites. All other bets, all other ideas about what we want in a mate, are off. We feel alive and whole, confident that we have met the person who will make everything all right. Unfortunately, since we've almost surely chosen someone with negative traits similar to those of the parents who wounded us in the first place, the chance of a more positive outcome this time around are slim indeed.

When rudely awakened from the dazzling dream of compatibility, people can get very grumpy. Desperate to end the pain and disappointment Romantic Love leaves behind, many couples get divorced. Others who decide not to do the mind-numbing work of dividing up the stuff may stay together. But they wind up living parallel lives, without any true connection. They assume this is as good as it gets. But secretly they think something must be terribly wrong.

The number of times soul- mates is used in public is in reverse proportion to the number of months the relationship lasts.' Celebrant Quinn's Theories of Relativity

If he can't kiss you like this, Kiernan, don't marry him.

If he can't kiss you like that, sweetheart, don't marry him.

He knew what people wanted in a mate. All of them. Every one. So far as Sam could tell they may have found it in the damnedest places but everyone wanted the same things in a partner. Kind. Funny. Hot. Fun. Smart. And totally in love.

Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.

If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.

I wanted someone my equal, not someone who was not really grown up and needed looking after, and I was not likely to find another girl who was my equal and who shared my interests

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.

Then you have to figure out how to reach her. Find out if you're truly compatible. You can love someone, but not have the same values or be able to live with them." She paused, then added, "For many reasons.