Lynn Coady Quotes

I think relationships are really hard. Each one gives you lessons that you need.

I like tough relationships. I think relationships with conflict are good for you - you learn. But you can't listen too much. I have a strong point of view, and it's important that I fight for my ideas.

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

Don't beg, don't threaten and don't assume you're always right.

Relationships are something I know about.

Awkward conversations are painful, but they're way easier than divorce, resentment, and heartbreak.

It's important to work through things in a relationship. You can't just give up because you're frustrated. It's most important to talk things through together. And that, for me, has been the way I've best resolved problems in the past.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.

I've been in many relationships in my life and learned a lot from them, good and bad.

I never ever, ever say anything against my husband to anyone except my husband. Everyone gets in fights, and I think the natural propensity for women is, 'Oh I want to talk to someone.' But the minute you take what bothers you outside the bond between you and your husband, you let someone else into the relationship and that causes a wedge.

Relationships survive on trust, and if that is broken at any point, it's pretty much the end of the relationship. Besides, inability to communicate leads to problems.

You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

I am terrible at relationships.

You kind of restructure your whole personality to be in a healthy relationship.

Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them.

It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.

It's hard to be married to me, and it was a lot harder when I was younger!

All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.

It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.