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“We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: it's got to be the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, ‘This is the problem I want to have.’”
— Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe
Tagged: soulmates, Soul Mates, The One, Finding The One, Love, Relationships, Marriage, Dating
“I want you any way I can get you. Not because you’re beautiful or clever or kind or adorable, although devil knows you’re all those things. I want you because there’s no one else like you, and I don’t ever want to start a day without seeing you.”
— Lisa Kleypas, Tempt Me At Twilight
Tagged: beauty, Love, Marriage
“I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses. The smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life, to lie in your arms as I take my last breath.”
— Lisa Kleypas, Again The Magic
Tagged: Love, Marriage, Dating
“You'd be surprised how fast things happen when the right man comes along”
— Danielle Steel, The Wedding
Tagged: Love, Dating, Marriage
“Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.”
— Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue
Tagged: Love, Dating, Marriage
“Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.”
— Nora Roberts, Blood Brothers
Tagged: Love, Dating, Marriage
“I don't need a ring or a license, or a spectacular white dress. It's not marriage so much, or at all really, that matters. It's the promise. It's the knowing someone wants me to be part of his life. Someone loves me, that I'm the one for him. That's not just enough, it's everything.”
— Nora Roberts, Savor The Moment
Tagged: wedding, Marriage, Love
“When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you’d be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her.”
— Nora Roberts, Happy Ever After
Tagged: Love, Dating, Marriage
“Most people want to get married. Is there anything else that people do in such huge numbers, with such a terrible success rate?”
— Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Tagged: Marriage, Failed Relationships
“The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.”
— Stephen Kendrick, The Love Dare
Tagged: Love, Forever, Relationships, Marriage, Break Up
“Falling in love for us meant falling into talk. We talked about our memories, broken bones, broken hearts and one broken marriage. We talked about our mothers, one Jewish and one Italian, constantly cooking and feeding. We talked about our fathers, neither of whom cooked or fed.

We talked about friends, come and gone. We talked about our careers, climbing the ladder of success, falling off the ladder, leaning in and leaning out.

We talked about our dreams: of traveling, of marriage, of how many children we would like and what we would name them. With those subjects addressed, we turned to smaller details and anecdotes, the stories about getting drunk, getting lost, crashing the car, stealing a candy bar and falling down a flight of subway stairs before a job interview.

Finally, we talked about the nonstories, the quirky facts and facets of personality: our favorite movies, what we liked to eat, what we wouldn’t eat. He hated Kalamata olives. He could do without cucumbers. I hated capers and marshmallows (and the end of ‘Ghostbusters’). He talked about rivers and rocks. I quoted Frank O’Hara and Mayakovsky. We compared 5K running times.

There was never enough time and so much to discuss. We talked about the colors of leaves, the shapes of clouds and why the word ‘warmth’ has a hidden ‘p.’

We talked about sex.

We talked about our wedding.

We talked about our new house.

We talked about furnishing it.

We talked about pregnancy.

We talked about the child.

Then the second.

Seven years into it, our marriage was different. After the machinations of getting the children to sleep, we would sit side by side in bed with computers on our laps, surfing the internet. We were not talking, not sleeping, so close and yet so far apart. This dynamic — of being physically together but emotionally disengaged — had also bled into the mundane of the everyday, with too much silence and space between us on the couch and with us cooking on opposite sides of the kitchen island.”
— Molly Pascal, How the ‘Dining Dead’ Got Talking Again
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Love, Relationships, Marriage, Psychology, Philosophy
“Bad relationships are the ones filled with drama. The highs are higher and the lows are lower. When I say ‘bad relationship,’ I mean everything from a toxic, codependent situation to a relationship with a man who won’t commit in a significant way, to a match that is simply incompatible.”
— Sabrina Alexis, Everything You Need To Know If You Want Love That Lasts
Tagged: Love, lasting love, inspiration, Relationships, Dating, Advice, romance, marriage & adult relationships, Marriage, Fitness, diet
“Men are not responsive to nagging or criticism, but they can be enormously receptive— and appreciative— when you tell them what makes you happy in a loving way.”
— Sabrina Alexis, Everything You Need To Know If You Want Love That Lasts
Tagged: Love, lasting love, inspiration, Relationships, Dating, Advice, romance, marriage & adult relationships, Marriage, Fitness, diet
“Sometimes you’ll feel unloved, insecure, angry. Sometimes you’ll want to just run, and sometimes you’ll feel really lonely, and that will surprise you, because how can you be lonely in the company of someone who truly loves you?”
— Sabrina Alexis, Everything You Need To Know If You Want Love That Lasts
Tagged: Love, lasting love, inspiration, Relationships, Dating, Advice, romance, marriage & adult relationships, Marriage, Fitness, diet
“Here’s the thing that no one really tells you: good relationships don’t always feel all that good… but it’s not for the same reason bad relationships feel bad.”
— Sabrina Alexis, Everything You Need To Know If You Want Love That Lasts
Tagged: Love, lasting love, inspiration, Relationships, Dating, Advice, romance, marriage & adult relationships, Marriage, Fitness, diet
“Instead of focusing on what your partner   should   be doing, try to look at what he   is   doing right in the relationship and show appreciation for those things. The more your man feels appreciated, the more he’ll want to do to make you happy.”
— Sabrina Alexis, Everything You Need To Know If You Want Love That Lasts
Tagged: Love, lasting love, inspiration, Relationships, Dating, Advice, romance, marriage & adult relationships, Marriage, Fitness, diet
“Happiness isn’t something you get from a relationship (although a relationship can certainly add to your level of happiness), it’s something that spills into your relationship.”
— Sabrina Alexis, Everything You Need To Know If You Want Love That Lasts
Tagged: Love, lasting love, inspiration, Relationships, Dating, Advice, romance, marriage & adult relationships, Marriage, Fitness, diet
“Men cannot resist a woman with a smile.”
— Sabrina Alexis, Everything You Need To Know If You Want Love That Lasts
Tagged: Love, lasting love, inspiration, Relationships, Dating, Advice, romance, marriage & adult relationships, Marriage, Fitness, diet
“There are many ways to keep the lust alive in your relationship, you’ll probably discover them all by just thinking about how things were in the beginning of your relationship, back when you were overcome by a magnetic force of physical attraction.”
— Sabrina Alexis, Everything You Need To Know If You Want Love That Lasts
Tagged: Love, lasting love, inspiration, Relationships, Dating, Advice, romance, marriage & adult relationships, Marriage, Fitness, diet
“...what we call ‘love at first sight’ is really intense lust and desire coupled with the recognition that there is the potential to create something meaningful with this other person.”
— Sabrina Alexis, Everything You Need To Know If You Want Love That Lasts
Tagged: Love, lasting love, inspiration, Relationships, Dating, Advice, romance, marriage & adult relationships, Marriage, Fitness, diet

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