Quotes about relationships

If you want to make a bond, you are to take the risk of tearing.

The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.

The only right you have with anyone in life is the right to walk away.

I have learned over time that relationships require work. When you’re younger, you have a sense of love as being magical and so relationships happen in that particular space of magic, and it’s easy to feel that’s all one needs, but now I know that relationships require work, and constant work. The desire that is in the relationship also needs to be nurtured, and thought about, and reentered and reimagined.

We simply can’t have a healthy relationship with another person without communicating what’s acceptable and unacceptable to us.

We don't naturally fall into perfect relationship; we create them

People don’t know what you want. It’s your job to make it clear. Clarity saves relationships.

Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives.

we all need other people to meet our emotional needs for comfort and closeness. That’s what relationships are all about.

Remember, you can’t expect immature, emotionally phobic people to be different from how they are.

Empathy is what makes people feel safe in relationships. Along with self-awareness, it's the soul of emotional intelligence, guiding people toward prosocial behavior and fairness in dealings with others. In contrast, nonempathic people overlook your feelings and don't seem to imagine your experience or be sensitive to it. It's important to be aware of this, because a person who isn't responsive to your feelings won't be emotionally safe when the two of you have any kind of disagreement.

People who lacked emotional engagement in childhood, men and women alike, often can’t believe that someone would want to have a relationship with them just because of who they are. They believe that if they want closeness, they must play a role that always puts the other person first.