Abbi Glines Quotes

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary - to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship.

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

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

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

Sex should be a deepening of communication, not a substitute for it.

Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.

In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

The first great real intimacy between two people begins when secrets are told.

Look your significant other in the eyes, make that connection.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

Real intimacy depends on truth - lovingly told - especially in the bedroom.

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

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

That's one of the great lies of intimacy, to pretend you know everything - you cannot. No matter how close you've been, over however many years, there remain secrets. I think we all know that - that you don't tell everybody everything.

Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they're being trusted as a friend.

I don't know if you're married, but sometimes there are times where one is really together with their partner. And then there are times when you're both just in your own thing, but you're there together.

Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day.