Eniola Aluko Quotes

When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't.

You like someone, you court each other, you get into a relationship. You're answerable to each other. Whereas, the non-answerability of dating, my God, I don't know if I would ever be able to.

It's important to build trust if you're trying to deal with big things. Big issues require everybody to get outside their comfort zone, and people are more willing to do so if they believe that their partner is sincere in their efforts. And the only way you can do that is to engage them on a personal level.

I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.

A guy that's really serious about you, he's gotta be talking to you, he's gotta want to have one-on-one, in-your-face interaction. That's how we are.

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

When you're in a relationship, if you just break it down to regular terms, people are attracted to something, and that's what they want you to be, and that's what you should just be, and for me, it's very simple - if I meet a girl and I say, 'This is what I like about you. Just continue. Every day.'

I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.

I'm one of those guys that - as far as relationships and stuff go - if you smile at me, I'm like, 'Let's date for three years' - which is just ridiculous.

I prefer a monogamous relationship if I can find one.

I said, maybe you need to take a risk with someone else. But they kept saying no, we want you to stay.

The only way I see myself in a serious relationship is if I am toning it down a bit.

I can't fight for no man because that means I'm fighting for your uncertainty about me and our relationship, so what kind of sense does that make? Honey, there are too many men in this world, and there's bound to be one who's truly checking for me.

It's important for a guy to know and understand me before he can even think about taking things to the next step.

My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.

Love is a component of many different things - the baggage you bring, the moment, what you need in your life, seeing someone as a portal for understanding everything, and all the intensity that brings. It's not something to count on and act like it's a stable thing.

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

I'll date one day if I find someone that I want to let into my life enough.

All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.

I think if you're in a committed relationship, unless you have some sort of an understanding, monogamy is something that should exist.

You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.

I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.

Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.

Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.