“Even having a conversation about the imbalance of emotional labor becomes emotional labor. It gets to a point where I have to weigh the benefits of getting my husband to understand my frustration against the compounded emotional labor of doing so in a way that won’t end in us fighting.”— Gemma Hartley, harpersbazaar.com
“That's when you know you've found somebody really special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably share silence.”— Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avery, Mia Wallace, Uma Thurman, amazon.com
“Time is the simplest metric of marital success. The other measures — joy, love, and fulfillment — are too unwieldy.”— Laura Smith, lennyletter.com
“Out growing & growing apart from people is a natural part of life. We enter each other's lives to teach one another lessons that assist in our evolution & help us become our best selves. Be grateful for all you learned from your experience & then practice letting go with grace.”— Ebonee Davis, twitter.com
“It's okay to be selective about who you let occupy space in your life. Never apologize for changing your criteria & raising your standards.”— Ebonee Davis, twitter.com
“Be wary of those who are only in love with the 'idea' of you, and not actual, physical manifestation of you — you, with your hopes and dreams and heart and baggage.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“i hope my memory makes the teeth grit, makes the salt of your skin slide down razors. i hope i stain.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“Relationships are a lot like algebra. Have you ever looked at your X and wondered Y?”— Unknown, tcat.tc
“A love that’s alive is also constantly evolving. It expands and contracts and mellows and deepens. It’s not going to be the way it used to be, or the way it will be, and it shouldn’t be.”— Paula G., markmanson.net
“But you know that he can sustain a relationship about as long as he can probably hold a boombox over his head.”— Liz Tigelaar, Jennifer, Katie Aselton, imdb.com
“Relationships don't they don't exist in the world of right and wrong. They just you know, they work when they work, and they don't when they don't.”— Halsted Sullivan, Emmy, Eliza Coupe, imdb.com
“It’s so much easier to walk away than it is to have to explain to someone that you never want to see them again.”— Meg Cabot, amazon.com
“Assuming that every relationship between a parent and child will last a lifetime is as simplistic as assuming every couple will never split up.”— Catherine Saint Louis, nytimes.com
“My mother used to say the best relationships have a gardener and a flower. I'm definitely the gardener.”— Jessica Goldberg, Nicole, Ali Ahn, imdb.com
“Enjoy your 2018 and remember: Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“When we give our bodies to another being, we are giving them a piece of our souls. Take the time to find out if they deserve it.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“The only relationship we can have is the relationship we have with the 'self.' Everything else is a reflection of that relationship.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com