“Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.”— Charles F. Stanley, amazon.com
“The truth is, partnership is tenuous, and the current prevailing model was constructed only after thousands of years of different examples, most completely unrelated to a modern understanding of Western marriage, and which for a long time excluded interracial and queer couples. My in-laws, together…”— Meghan Nesmith, manrepeller.com
“Sarah and I had met to get a drink together, which became two drinks, which became me confessing that I had fantasized about BDSM but never engaged with it outside of incognito browsing tabs on my laptop.”— Dana Schwartz, thecut.com
“I liked his dominating me because it meant he wanted me, that he thought about me and imagined new ways of torturing and disciplining me. I would willingly become an object so long as I was the object of his affection.”— Dana Schwartz, thecut.com
“Our nearest and dearest are often those who are most in the dark respecting our private and personal sufferings — we do not wish to trouble them — and they prefer to think that everything is right with us, even though the veriest stranger, meeting us casually, clearly beholds the shadow of the dark…”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“The tenderest relations are often the most delicate and subtle, and 'trifles light as air' may scatter and utterly destroy the sensitive gossamer threads extending between one heart and another, as easily as a child's passing foot destroys the spider's web woven on the dewy grass in the early mornin…”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“Chances are, pixels and parts have been sent and received. But what happens when the relationship fizzles? In most cases, sending nudes is a relatively harmless and consensual sexy exchange of horny content. Even if we don't really acknowledge it at the time, we're all aware that once a nude is in t…”— Chloe Hall, elle.com
“You do not know — how should you? What I think of you! Satisfied? Pleased? Good Heavens — what little words those are to express my feeling! I can tell you how you look, for nothing can ever make you vain. You are beautiful! . . . You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen, and you look your…”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“She is innocent too — like a baby — and she worships her husband. That is an error! To worship a man is a great mistake — she will find it so. Men are not to be too much loved — no, no!”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“The reason your relationships are mediocre is because you haven’t learned enough about communication.”— Anthony Moore, medium.com
“I’m actually one of those people that loves a challenging match. I don’t believe that it can’t lead to love or something meaningful.”— Astro Poets, wmagazine.com
“Do I not share that part of my life because I’m scared it will fail?”— Rainesford Stauffer, thecut.com
“Relationship anarchists don’t disregard commitment; they just go about it very differently than monogamists do.”— Sophie Saint Thomas, gq.com
“The complicated chemistry created by two people who love each other has always interested me, maybe because I struggle so much to understand how it’s possible.”— Alia Wilhelm, rookiemag.com
“My husband and I have argued for so long it has become part of the fabric of our relationship, like a bunion — though our squabbles don’t stop us from having a relatively normal relationship.”— Caren Chesler, nytimes.com
“I still have no idea why you stayed. Why you tolerated me. But I’m glad you did.”— Lauren Doyle Owens, nytimes.com
“The easiest way for you to manipulate your romantic partner is to not only praise behavior you want to see in that person, but also to praise the opposite of the unwelcome behavior the person is been engaged in rather than attempting to punish it.”— James J. Sexton, psychologytoday.com
“We've been indoctrinated to believe that it’s immoral to try to change someone else. We’ve been told that love, real love, is about accepting your partner “for who they are." But we’re constantly changing our romantic partners merely by our presence in their day-to-day lives. They react to us. We re…”— James J. Sexton, psychologytoday.com
“Is this dishonest? I don’t think so. Is wearing makeup dishonest? It’s changing the focus, accentuating the positive, and distracting the eye from the negative.”— James J. Sexton, psychologytoday.com