Lynn Shelton Quotes

He was thirty-one now, not too old, but old enough to be lonely. He hadn't dated since he'd been back here, hadn't met anyone who remotely interested him. It was his own fault, he knew. There was something that kept a distance between him and any woman who started to get close, something he wasn't sure he could change even if he tried. And sometimes in the moments right before sleep came, he wondered if he was destined to be alone forever.

Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?

I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.

I've got a string of disastrous relationships behind me. I don't think I'm an easy person to live with.

With me, nothing goes right. My psychiatrist said my wife and I should have sex every night. Now, we'll never see each other!

Jim Bakker ripped off the bedspread and said, my wife doesn't make me feel like a man anymore.

My husbands all repeatedly said the same thing - that I was not a very passionate woman.

The tricky thing is, from what I've heard, I'm a bit emotionally unavailable.

I didn't see deep emotion from my parents. It was all very polite and very surface. I never knew how anybody was feeling.

I find it really hard to be close to anybody.

Not having a great relationship with my brother Aaron, or what people think that relationship should be, didn't define me.

I do not want to have feelings that are just for me that I cannot express to other people. That frustrates me.

A new couple does a lot of things for each other. And slowly they lose interest and it affects the relationship. It is a part of life and a lot of people experience this.

I don't understand boys - just ask my husband.

I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.

Every woman I've had a relationship with has found this maddening; the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when I'm at home, I clam up and won't discuss anything intimate or personal.

My family - it wasn't an abusive family - they meant well, but they were in their own world.

I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many times... my children have accused me of not giving them enough attention. And, frankly, I never have been good at handling that.

We think constant connection will make us feel less lonely. The opposite is true.

We don't sulk with everybody. We limit our sulks to a very particular person: the person who's supposed to love us and understand us. And we make this equation that if you love me, you're supposed to understand me even if I don't explain what's wrong.

No matter what I do, you're going to be upset by something.

If your partner is consistently unhappy, it won't matter if they're incredibly sexy, wildly funny, impressively successful, adorably charismatic - your relationship will be weighed down under the heaviness of their moods.

Men and women are different, and they can never read each other's mind.

We weren't the kind of family that talked about our problems. We were a close family, in a kind of faraway way. It wasn't a being-with-each-other kind of close. We all went our own ways.

I think, a lot of times, we find ourselves in a relationship where we are on two different pages.