Daniel Handler Quotes

When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.

Every couple goes through things.

When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either.

When people go through a fight, they're saying things because they hurt, and they want to hurt the person back. Sadly, that's the nature of a relationship. It's one moment where you aren't very adult, but that's how love and a certain passionate relationship exists. When you love someone, it doesn't mean you become a perfect human being, do you?

When you nag, you become the problem, he deals with it by turning you out, but when you don't nag, he deals with the problem.

Marriage doesn't create problems. It reveals them. You bring unresolved stuff into it.

That's what I do and I enjoy even the hateful moments of a relationship where two people or four people come together to make a bigger mess than originally intended.

There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.

Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet service to see who they really are.

A lot of shows have couples with issues inside the relationship.

You have to look at what 'Rumours' was, what drove the subject matter. You had two couples who were broken up or breaking up. And probably, you could say, success we had achieved was the catalyst for those breakups.

Marriage is hard. I'm not gonna lie.

A lot of cases, what makes you an interesting and complex person makes you a really horrible person to be with romantically.

Infidelity in a serious relationship? No, I have never had that kind of a conflict. My conflicts have been time elements, geographical elements.

Many relationships can become difficult, and it can be hard to find a way back.

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

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

It can be easy to let all sorts of things in your life slide, including your relationship.

When you're frustrated with people, when they've made you angry, it just may be because you haven't given them enough time.

If I get married again, I'm just going to buy the woman a house and break up with her, because that will be the end result anyway.

Choosing a partner is choosing a set of problems. There are no problem-free candidates.

Alex decided he’d had enough. He put down his knife. “All right,” he said. “You’ve made it pretty clear that you don’t want to work with me. Well, that’s fine. Because I don’t want to work with you either. And for what it’s worth, nobody would ever believe you were my mom because no mom would ever behave like you.” “Alex…,” Carver began. “Forget it! I’m going back to London. And if you’re Mr. Byrne asks why, you can tell him I didn’t like the jelly, so I went home to get some jam.

Sex accounts for about 40 percent of your relationship, but if it's bad, then it's 60.

I didn't know every day I would be discussing the tone of my voice with my wife. I thought it was a marriage. Apparently, it's a musical.

If a relationship is going to work, it will require compromise and, even then, it is not always going to end the way you want it to.