Dervla Kirwan Quotes

Family matters should be that and stay in the family.

I think relationships are the one area you should keep private, because there's nothing worse than people talking about them.

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.

I am terrible at relationships.

Being in a relationship is a hard, painful slog at least once a week, maybe more often - especially if you have a lot of defenses to let down, or if your parents didn't know how to love you very well.

If I differ with my husband, I certainly would not tell you.

Every relationship has their ups and downs, and, you know, when you start having more downs than ups, you know, you gotta take a look at your relationship and be like, you know, 'Is this something that I'm supposed to be doing?'

Yelling between people in love is normal.

My one area of vulnerability was I didn't know how to have a healthy relationship with a man.

I'm just not very comfortable talking about my emotions on a normal, day-to-day basis.

To talk about a relationship trivializes something that's nobody's business.

Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.

I wouldn't tell you anything about anybody I cared about because it becomes entertainment for other people, and it sort of just cheapens everything in your life. I would never tell you if I was dating anybody.

I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.

My private life is private.

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.

With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.

I've learned the hard way how valuable privacy is. And I've learned that there are a lot of things in your life that really benefit from being private. And relationships are one of them.

I find sharing intimate details with people that you don't know an interesting concept. I like to keep some things to myself.

Relationships or not, I believe that people don't need to know about my life beyond a certain point.

I don't think any relationship responds well to pressure.

It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.

I think that whether you're married or not, in any relationship, there's always the terror that you're going to screw something up.

My personal feelings are my personal feelings. I don't want to express them with anyone except for a very few people. It doesn't do any good. It really doesn't.