Eva Mendes Quotes

I love being in a relationship, but marriage isn't for me.

I don't know, monogamy is a weird thing for me.

I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.

The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.

I'm not interested in serial dating; I'd honestly rather be single.

There's a lot to be said about stability. So many people don't get married nowadays - you see it less and less - but it's a shame if you don't ever have that experience of sharing something with someone else. It's a real shame.

I don't think marriage is in the cards for me. I think it's an archaic institution.

Also, I thought the main reason people get married is to have children. And since having kids had never been of interest to me, I didn't think marriage was necessary.

I don't have a ton of experience, because I date with the intent to marry... It's how I want a family and how I would want someone to treat my daughter.

I couldn't put my hand on my heart and say I think that being in a relationship is a natural state for a human being.

I'm very devoted to my husband and we've been together for a very long time.

I definitely think anything I'd be in now is a permanent relationship.

I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility.

Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.

But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.

There's a difference... between the kind of woman you would bang and the kind of woman you would marry.

I don't need to be married, but I feel married.

We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently.

Why is marriage the pinnacle for everyone? People get married for the wrong reasons. We need to start looking at different packages, whether it's living together, or being with six partners, or dedicating your life to taking care of flowers.

I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.

I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us.