Irina Shayk Quotes

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?'

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

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

I am terrible at relationships.

I wanted to write about relationships in a more honest, raw sort of way. Get away from all those cliches about how 'time heals' and how you can be the better person. Less sugar-coating and more 'feel the pain.'

I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.

My relationships are fairly stable.

Being single has its ups and downs, and being in a relationship has its ups and downs. It depends on how you balance it and how you handle your problems within your relationship.

There comes a crossroads in every marriage where you grow together or grow apart. I outgrew Len. He wanted me to be in that leather jumpsuit for the rest of my life and do nothing else. He constrained me. It got to a point where the marriage died or I did.

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

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

In good relationships, we are happy to grow as the other person becomes part of us and who we are.

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.

My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.

I think the hardest thing to do in a relationship is something for yourself.

I think when you're in a relationship, either you have something or your partner generally has something that you're having to deal with.

I've definitely been in relationships where I've given too much, and I've been in relationships where I haven't given enough. I think it's a work in progress. I have to find that person where it clicks.

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

I don't know what'll ever happen if I'm in a healthy relationship. My writing career will go down the tubes.

I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.

A healthy relationship is built on unwavering trust.

For me to stay healthy in a relationship, the individuals have to nurture themselves.

Sometimes people can be guilty of not working at relationships and if it's not working, oof, that's it.

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?