All Quotes By Tag: Couples

“Everyone has their love story. Everyone. It may have been a fiasco, it may have fizzled out, it may never even have got going, it may have been all in the mind, that doesn’t make it any less real. Sometimes, it makes it more real. Sometimes, you see a couple, and they seem bored witless with one another, and you can’t imagine them having anything in common, or why they’re still living together. But it’s not just habit or complacency or convention or anything like that. It’s because once, they had their love story. Everyone does. It’s the only story.”

“Sometimes I find myself arguing with her hips because her walk is so mean.”

“Even if you forget, I will remember for the two of us.”

“This is what we had become, after the first symbiotic year of our living together: a couple who needed another couple to be around.”

“About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn’t expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her, you see, and she never taxed me with the times that I slipped from the way I thought a man should be…the way I thought I should be, at any rate. A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God’s creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don’t know how poorly off they are.”

“The only person that should wear your ring is the one person that would never…1. Ask you to remain silent and look the other way while they hurt another.2. Jeopardize your future by taking risks that could potentially ruin your finances or reputation. 3. Teach your children that hurting others is okay because God loves them more. God didn’t ask you to keep your family together at the expense of doing evil to others.4. Uses religious guilt to control you, while they are doing unreligious things. 5. Doesn’t believe their actions have long lasting repercussions that could affect other people negatively.6. Reminds you of your faults, but justifies their own.7. Uses the kids to manipulate you into believing you are nothing. As if to suggest, you couldn’t leave the relationship and establish a better Christian marriage with someone that doesn’t do these things. Thus, making you believe God hates all the divorced people and will abandon you by not bringing someone better to your life, after you decide to leave. As if!8. They humiliate you online and in their inner circle. They let their friends, family and world know your transgressions. 9. They tell you no marriage is perfect and you are not trying, yet they are the one that has stirred up more drama through their insecurities. 10. They say they are sorry, but they don’t show proof through restoring what they have done. 11. They don’t make you a better person because you are miserable. They have only made you a victim or a bitter survivor because of their need for control over you.12. Their version of success comes at the cost of stepping on others.13. They make your marriage a public event, in order for you to prove your love online for them.14. They lie, but their lies are often justified.15. You constantly have to start over and over and over with them, as if a connection could be grown and love restored through a honeymoon phase, or constant parental supervision of one another’s down falls. 16. They tell you that they don’t care about anyone other than who they love. However, their actions don’t show they love you, rather their love has become bitter insecurity disguised in statements such as, “Look what I did for us. This is how much I care.” 17. They tell you who you can interact with and who you can’t.18. They believe the outside world is to blame for their unhappiness. 19. They brought you to a point of improvement, but no longer have your respect. 20. They don’t make you feel anything, but regret. You know in your heart you settled.”

“As I walked inside, she turned around and headed for the end of the bed. Then she paused and turned to face me. She was wearing her Orchard Hill basketball T-shirt and sweatpants and she looked tired, but beautiful.”

“When a clandestine couple kisses, it is much more likely that sex will immediately follow. This is because there is much more risk. Once you have kissed secretly, it is very difficult not to have sex. It would be impolite not to have sex. You have to show that you are serious about each other.”

“I missed you so much,” she breathed.I tilted my head back and put my hands on her shoulders. I could hardly believe this was happening. I was finally getting to touch her. To kiss her. It was all happening. “I missed you, too.”

“There’s something I have to say,” I said seriously, looking her in the eye. She smiled. “Oookay.” She was mocking me-mocking my tone-but I didn’t care. “Okay. Here it is. I love you,” I said. “And I never, ever wanted to hurt you. It’s like, the number one thing I never want to do, but somehow, I keep doing it. And I’m sorry, I just…that’s all I wanted to say all this time. All I was trying to do…with that thing with your dad, not telling you…was not to hurt you. And I’m sorry that I did. Alley stared at me. “And I’m sorry that I did it again. With the Chloe thing. Which was stupid. Like, really, really, stupid. And I-” “Can you just stop, for a second?” Ally said, holding up a hand. “What?” I said. “Can you say the first part again?” she asked, rolling her fingers around for a rewind. I racked my brain. “Um…I love you?” I said. “That’s the part, Cuz I love you, too.”

“One of the most difficult things he’d ever done was turn away and leave her standing in the shadows.”

“time made me stronger, you’re no longer on my mind”

“On the left side of a strong woman, stands a strong man; he is strengthened by her character.”

“Because you let our love just fall apartYou no longer have my heart”

“How dare you say it’s nothing to me?Baby, you’re the only light I ever saw.”