James Dobson Quotes

The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.

Being able to depend on someone doesn't mean you're dependent on them.

... I learned the hard way that just as I no longer have to save anyone, neither do I have to be saved.

You will not become dependent on the people you love. You will share - and sharing is beautiful.

I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.

I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone.

I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.

I'm so drastically independent; I don't tend to flourish in relationships.

I think if we want to find happiness by finding a life partner, then it's a little selfish. You should be complete within yourself, so that when you're in a relationship, you can give out happiness rather than expect it.

There is nothing in Indispensable that says, Alone.

I love my friends, but I feel pretty autonomous.

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

I always thought I needed the support of someone in a long-term relationship to make me whole.

When I was younger, the idea of the bad boy was appealing, but then I grew up and realized that stable people are more fulfilling. Bad boys need more time to themselves. I want to be in a relationship with someone who knows how to take care of himself and is therefore able to take care of me. That way, we can put each other first.

It's very important in any relationship that one partner doesn't lose themselves in the other, and that's very easy if you're involved with a celebrity.

I don't ever want to have to need someone again - where you feel like, without them, you can't be yourself.

Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge.

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

A man cannot tell whether a woman is in love with him or his security blanket until she is financially and psychologically independent enough to leave. Until a woman has learned how to leave, even she cannot be sure she has learned to love.

Children who have learned to be comfortably dependent can become not only comfortably independent but also comfortable with having people depend on them. They can lean, stand, and be leaned upon, because they know what a good feeling it can be to feel needed.

We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.

Enjoy everything. Need nothing. Needing someone is the fastest way to kill a relationship .. The greatest gift you can give someone is the strength and the power not to need you, to need you for nothing.

The two kinds of people on earth are the people who lift and the people who lean.

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.