#relationships

No one had told her this would happen, that her girlishness would give way to the solid force of wifehood, motherhood. The choices available were all imperfect. If you chose to be with someone, you often wanted to be alone. If you chose to be alone, you often felt the unbearable need for another body - not necessarily for sex, but just to rub your foot, to sit across the table, to drop his things around the room in a way that was maddening but still served as a reminder that he was there. ↗

— Meg Wolitzer

#relationships #women #marriage

About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her, you see, and she never taxed me with the times that I slipped from the way I thought a man should be...the way I thought I should be, at any rate. A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don't know how poorly off they are. ↗

— Stephen King

#marriage #relationships #marriage

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

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

It was one thing not to want a husband, I realized; it was quite another not to need one for the roof over your head, for your meat and bread, for the shoes on your feet and the coat on your back. ↗

— Margo Lanagan

#love #marriage #relationships #love

Why is it men think you have to accept an apology, just because one is offered? ↗

— D.D. Barant

#relationships #men

That’s the thing about love It can take you up to the mountaintop and can drop you And the impact will either kill you or make you a new person ↗

— Kehinde Sonola

#hope #inspirational #joy #joy-of-life #klosophy

It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time. ↗

— Don Roff

#inspirational #life #life-philosophy #people #relationships

Whenever your foundation is laid in God, there will be nothing that can shake it, no matter how strong the storm is. ↗

— Angelo M. Swinson

#inspirational-quotes #marriage-advice #relationships #self-help #inspirational

I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#relationships #self-worth #inspirational

The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms. ↗

— Pandora Poikilos

#inspirational #relationships #self-help #inspirational