Mickey Sumner Quotes

All relationships are a learning experience, even ones you continue to be in. If you don't see them as that, then that's a problem.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together.

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!

Mixed messages are just part and parcel of the romantic terrain, and rather than berate yourself for any crossed wires, you'd do better to work on your future resilience.

The older you get, the more you start to realize that you can't win an argument in a relationship. You can't win a fight with your woman. Because if you lose, you lose. And if you win, you lose.

Forcing people together is an enjoyable conflict to watch, but I think it's even more enjoyable if they love each other.

We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you're in trouble.

There is no such thing as emotional incompatibility. There are only misunderstandings and mistakes which can easily be set right if we have the will to do so.

Soha is a very balanced and intelligent girl. She does advise me at times. We do discuss films but the decision rests with the individual. We are both strong characters and so at times our fights turn volatile. But me being a Gemini, I blow hot and cold, so I usually patch up in 10 minutes.

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

The power dynamics in a relationship are going to be fluid over a long period of time, so to wait for 'perfect' is going to be a mistake.

After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

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.

I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.

Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

As a rule, all relationships go through their ups and downs. It's really about how much you want it.

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.