I just hope the woman I invited over to dinner shares our insightful perspective.

And our ages never bothered her from the very beginning. I was married, but that didn’t matter, either. She seemed to consider things like age and family and income to be of the same a...

Marriage is the connecting of the two: Without passion it’s just friendship; without friendship it’s just lust.

If I never shed a tear or wondered what happened to someone I actually loved, what makes you believe I’d think twice about you, someone I never even cared for?

Jealousy is not a result of love. It is a result of crossed relationship boundaries. Love and relationships should not be confused.

It’s just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn’t it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.

Why, then, did I always feel as if his happiness was my responsibility? It wasn’t fair for him to burden me with that. It had never been fair.

Find yourself first…like yourself first…love yourself FIRST…& friendship & love will naturally find YOU.

An Ally does not keep count

Christ, they’d be getting a cat next. He mentally recoiled from the idea: the day they did that, he’d cut off his dick and call himself a lesbian.

A while back, when Dick & Barry & I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you *are* like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for potential partners, a 2...

The best relationships are between two people who care more about each other’s good than their own momentary pleasure.

He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.

So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game.

Why must we cling to those who walk away instead of granting freedom? We must give the same liberty God gives to prodigals-an ability to let them go-or we’ll be perennially bound to others for...

Truth builds trust.

We are social animals. We need others to survive. With rare exception, this is at the heart of many of our behaviors. We create patterns of behavior that help us to stay connected with others,...

After that, I’d wanted to date, but I simply didn’t know how. It seemed to come natural to everyone else, pairing up and going out. And now, well, I felt like a nonparticipant, like there...

In his experience with women, it was difficult to recover once things began to go wrong–once they had unreasonably decided that you were a person with whom they were not under any circumstances ever going...

One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the...

Isabella, you miss the essence of a boy. That’s all.

I watched, hoping she wouldn’t come out too broke. It’s all you can do for people sometimes, no matter how much you love them.

Dokunuşuyla ve sıcağıyla, insanı kavrayışıyla… Bıçak sırtı bir erkekti karşımdaki. İnsanı baştan çıkaran, tınısı kulakları çınlatan sesiyle, bu günahın iğvasına hiç düşünmeden atlayabileceğim kadar tehlikeli bir güzellik…

log on” somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264)

Balanced relationships are always based in freedom, not obligation.

We are wasting our youth holding cold devices while we should be holding one another’s warm hands.

It’s as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was...

Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy and clear. Likewise in a relationship, men and women have their own rhythms and cycles.

You are a door to an existence she does not desire, but even if the room beyond is repugnant, that door has won a portion of her affection.

Some marry because they are in love. Others marry to have sex … without the guilt.

When a man’s girlfriend’s parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they’re not really concerned about him; they’re concerned about their daughter’s tummy.

If love wasn’t conditional, every single first encounter with individuals of your ‘preferred’ gender would result in *love at first sight.*

… There can be no grounding of love and goodness without power (strength). Love that is not founded on inner strength is easily destroyed by power. Caring that is based only on the wish to...

Maybe I hope too much. Maybe I dream too much or maybe I love too much to just give up on you.

Proper apologies have three parts:1) What I did was wrong.2) I feel badly that I hurt you.3) How do I make this better?

This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from...

My heart is flooded with love. Drowning is the way to go.

God is great and God is good,” Lisa says. “But where are the Apache attack helicopters when you need them?

I had a dream about you. I was sitting on your couch, relating my succession of ideas on subconscious influence. I asked you what they meant, and you told me that free associations were a...

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don’t think it’s the children who need to be adjusted.

People pleasing doesn’t allow you to receive.

Kiss me hot,heavy,wet & angry with that attitude like you do when your mouth yells it hates me but your tongue screams it can’t wait for me. Hug me, touch me, submit to me with...

Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of male and female being, refusing to privilege one over the other. The soul of feminist politics is the commitment to...

You will never attain and maintain more than you think you deserve.

In the best relationships, there remain serious pockets of unresolved bitterness.

Cheating and lying aren’t struggles, they’re reasons to break up.

The dating world makes me feel incredibly vulnerable. You put yourself out there earnestly as available only to encounter some of the most disingenuous people. There seems to be no formula. Just a boat load...

I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?

The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances...

You don’t get to choose,” Lincoln said. “It’s just happening.