“Love means admiration for qualities in the lover that promise to correct our weaknesses and imbalances; love is a search for completion.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“We allow our love stories to end way too early. We seem to know far too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Love stories begin not when we fear someone may be unwilling to see us again but when they decide they would have no objection to seeing us all the time; not when they have every opportunity to run away but when they have exchanged solemn vows promising to hold us, and be held captive by us, for lif…”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“He will experience similarly bittersweet longings for other lost soul mates spotted on buses, in the aisles of grocery stores, and in the reading rooms of libraries.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“It may come very fast, this certainty that another human being is a soul mate. We needn't have spoken with them; we may not even know their name. Objective knowledge doesn't come into it. What matters instead is intuition, a spontaneous feeling that seems all the more accurate and worthy of respect…”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“He has never felt anything remotely like this before. The sensation overwhelms him from the first. It isn't dependent on words, which they will never exchange. It is as if he has in some way always known her, as if she holds out an answer to his very existence, and, especially, to a zone of confused…”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“A marriage doesn't begin with a proposal, or even an initial meeting. It begins far earlier, when the idea of love is born, and more specifically the dream of a soulmate.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“All of my friends think you’re the girl I should marry. And I agree.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Between sips of kale juice at the Soho Grand, a chic Manhattan hotel near her apartment, she is explaining to me why time has hardened our view of adultery. ‘It’s because fidelity is the last thing left that defines a marriage,’ she says. ‘You don’t need to wait to have sex, you don’t need kids. You…”— Esther Perel, Emily Bobrow, 1843magazine.com
“How do you go from eight years of a happy marriage to wanting to blow someone's head off?”— Sharon Horgan, Frances, Sarah Jessica Parker, imdb.com
“I want to save my life while I still care about it.”— Sharon Horgan, Frances, Sarah Jessica Parker, imdb.com
“He starts calling you by his last name. If he is already playfully joking about married life like this, there is absolutely no need to wonder. It’s coming.”— June, everafterguide.com
“Emotional vulnerability is a clear sign that he is head over heels madly in love. Tears, fears, and all the ups and downs, prove that he is secure enough with your relationship to let his guard down.”— Abby Ho, 29secrets.com
“You feel like he’s pushing you forward — not like he’s holding you back. He encourages you to go after your dreams. He makes you feel like the impossible is possible.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“The sex is pretty damn great. Even though you’ve been together for a long time, you’re still excited to hop into bed. You agree to sex more than you turn it down, because there are still sparks whenever he touches you.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“You do an equal amount of work. Neither of you feel like you’re taking care of the lion’s share of the chores. You’re both working hard to keep the house clean and the rent paid.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com