Gillian Jacobs Quotes

It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.

Free love never works.

I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

Ask anyone who has been in a love relationship for a while: nothing is perfect.

There are interesting tensions that will naturally occur with any relationship. No matter what setting, what era, the tension is very, very real. It's basic human tension.

Regardless of whether you're in a gay or heterosexual relationship, you're going to go through your ups and downs.

With any long-term relationship, you have good days and bad days.

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

If it's not working before you get married, marriage isn't going to fix it.

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.

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other.

Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.

Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?

I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging.

The marital couple is not an independent entity with a mind and heart of its own, but an association of two individuals each with a separate intellectual and emotional makeup.

I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.

In every relationship, there are two perspectives to it.

I've always been of the mindset that relationships can be different and relationships can go bad with different people. That doesn't mean they're going to be a bad relationship with me.

Partners fall in and out of love, but they still need each other.

All relationships are complicated in some way - you fight, you make up, you laugh, you get angry. It happens.

The longer you get in a relationship, the harder it becomes to confront problems.