#ships

Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart. ↗

— Brené Brown

#imperfection #life #receiving #relationships #relationship

Pubic hair is proof of sexual maturity and if your partner finds that a turn-off, you should probably reconsider that partner. ↗

— Hadley Freeman

#sex #relationship

The important thing to remember is not to forget ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#life #philosophy #relationships #wisdom #wit

She praised his book and he embraced her from gratitude rather than lust, but she didn't let go. Neither did he. She kissed his cheek, his earlobe. For months they'd run their fingers around the hem of their affection without once acknowledging the fabric. The circumference of the world tightened to what their arms encompassed. She sat on the desk, between the columns of read and unread manuscript, and pulled him toward her by his index fingers. ↗

— Anthony Marra

#passion #relationships #love

Yeah, and we could fly in on dragons and release a cloud of sugar plum fairies to tiptoe in an get the watch. ↗

— Mora Early

#sarcasm #sibling-relationships #relationship

Married women are far more depressed than married men -- in unhappy marriages, three times more; and -- interestingly -- in happy marriages, five times more. In truth, it is men who are thriving in marriage, now as always, and who show symptoms of psychological and physical distress outside it. Not only their emotional well-being but their very lives, some studies say, depend on being married! ↗

— Dalma Heyn

#depression #love #marriage #relationships #social-science

I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#relationships

When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said. ↗

— Catherine Gilbert Murdock

#talking #relationships

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

— Patti Callahan Henry

#infidelity #lying #relationships #struggles #relationships

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken. ↗

— Jane Austen

#honesty #relationships #truth #relationships