Relationships Marriage Quotes

“Near him, she couldn't think of anything but him. But when they were a little apart she returned to herself, and she liked that woman she came back to. Someone...capable. Someone who maintained standards, who met commitments, who produced results. Someone who would be disappointed in a man who acted the way Max so often did. She should be disappointed with him.”
― Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth

“Be where your body is.”
― Karen Budzinski, How to Build an Enduring Marriage

“People can only love you from their own capacity to love. From their own well of love. I think that the greatest pains we've experienced in life, are those that come as a result of not understanding that we don't all share the same well. You can be loving from a well that's oceans deep, while another person has a well the size of a laundry pail. It's not their fault. It's not your fault either. But their pail isn't going to turn into an ocean and your ocean isn't going to turn into a pail. You have to find the people who swim at the same depths as you do. But it's also about the taste of the water; you see, someone can love you with an ocean's depth of water but you just don't like saltwater; you're a freshwater creature. That's still okay. When love isn't enough, that's okay. You have to wait for the depths and the tastes that match your own.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Have something to offer before you go looking for your soul mate.”
― Germany Kent

“Are you easier to live with or easier to live without?”
― Karen Budzinski, How to Build an Enduring Marriage

“If you fix what you stumble at, you may be able to avoid falling.”
― Karen Budzinski, How to Build an Enduring Marriage

“You can’t drive straight if your eyes are fixed on the rearview mirror”
― Karen Budzinski, How to Build an Enduring Marriage

“You think in terms of winning and losing," she said, "but if you're winning, who's losing?"
"HIM!"
"That's your husband" she said slowly, like this might be news to me.
"You're not supposed to want him to loose."
"Wow!" I said. "You don't know me, huh!”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“I’ve thought a lot about whether Mik is important to me. I think that we are a work in progress. I don’t feel that I’m responsible for consoling him through my illness – he’s on his own this time. And I think that I’m beginning to fall in love with him, once more. It’s not that wonderful, romantic, hormone-driven, crazy kind of love that we shared so many, many years ago and lost. It’s new. It’s fresh. It’s endearing. I think that it’s truer. Just to see him, makes my insides smile with happiness. And I’m going to tell him that.”
― Marlene F. Cheng, Our Broken Bond

“You always have time for romance, even if you don't have time for sex.”
― Paul Gaughan, ROMANCE... PUSH THE ON BUTTON!: How To Turn Your Man Into A Romantic

“Invest in relationships to avoid time repairing them.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“Staring at the phone in his hand, he sighed before dialing the number he knew by heart. Sure, he could have just clicked on her picture but for some reason it made his eyes tear up to see his wife’s smiling face while his own had tears streaming down it.”
― Stefanie Hutcheson, Left

“Before failing head over heels for somebody when it comes to new relationships ask yourself if that person clearly have what it takes to go the distance.”
― Germany Kent

“The presence of the shield feats can also arise in some cases of pathological jealousy. Here, the dreaded anti-feat would be infidelity, understood as anti-feat when it destroys pride and social prestige. One of the shield feats that would appear is the awareness. Here, the logic would be" aware "of infidelity operating as a consolation or compensation that serves to cushion the blow to the pride that infidelity brings. Therefore, this shield feat of awareness is the belief that infidelity has already occurred”
― Martín Ross, THE SHIELD FEATS THEORY: a different hypothesis concerning the etiology of delusions and other disorders.

“A romantic relationship is one of the most important emotional decisions we make in our lifetime. It is also one of the most important financial decisions of our lives.”
― Debra Kaplan, Coupleship Inc: From Financial Conflict to Financial Intimacy