Julia Sawalha Quotes

Why do people stay in relationships that are tough from almost the very beginning?

There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.

I want to get married, but I'm always tortured in relationships.

I think I'm prone to not being a good guy in relationships.

I need to figure men out. I've been seeing men that either remind me of my mother or remind me of my father. I either end up caretaking or being abandoned so I've had enough of my romantic instincts. I need to date away from type.

If I fell into one relationship after another with men who were either emotionally tuned out and unavailable or hotheaded and controlling, or both, it was because I was lacking in good sense about men.

I've been dating since I was 15 years old, and I just don't seem to do it well.

All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.

We all have our family issues from time to time.

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

I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.

I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships.

I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it's something I'm doing.

Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside you say, Why are they still married?

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

I don't think any one relationship in my life has wrecked me. I think I am a collection of wrecks.

I sort of managed to establish in my life that relationships aren't really a thing I can handle.

You date people to practice and to learn and to grow. But for me, everything was always a hang-up, or there was something there that I felt was a bit off.

I realized I'd built up walls and carried grudges for years. I had a lot of animosity, dating back to when I was growing up, toward people who told me that what I was doing datingwise was wrong.

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

I've two failed marriages in the past.

Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves.

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.

It's a recurring thing: It's that I fall really deeply for bad relationships. It's just always been this way and not changing.

My failings are the result of my own inter-personal abilities. I am not a good husband or boyfriend.