Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

Many new lovers and spouses struggle to reconcile themselves with their partners' relationship history, but it's an insecurity I left behind in my 20s.

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

I'll never have a best friend who is a man. It just doesn't work that way. So many times young girls will be like, 'I'm a guy's girl.' And I'm like, 'No, you're not. There's no way a man can understand you like a woman, and you're a guy's girl because you're threatened by other women.' I was like that.

I'm always surrounded by good-looking guys, like Zac Efron, so I have to be with someone who's not going to get jealous about any of that, or when I'm kissing somebody in a scene.

He that is jealous is not in love.

I'm not jealous, and I'm not possessive, and I'm not controlling.

Men don't want another man to look at their woman because they don't know how to handle it.

My husband is not a jealous person in any way.

I think what ruins relationships and causes most fights is insecurity.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.

I don't like competition in relationships.

I don't get jealous or insecure.

No married woman ever trusts her husband absolutely, nor does she ever act as if she did trust him. Her utmost confidence is as wary as an American pickpocket's confidence that the policeman on the beat will stay bought.

On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.

It's hard to be in these relationships where they don't call you one night and you don't think about it and then the next day they are photographed with someone coming out of an event with another girl.

It's like, if this person is going to betray me or deceive me, they're going to do it regardless whether or not I'm texting him constantly or looking through him phone or being jealous. And once you realize that, then jealousy isn't a factor. You're just you, and you can live in the moment.

No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.

The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations.

A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting.

You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?

A lack of communication leaves fear and doubt.

Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.

An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in your sleep at any time.