Emily V. Gordon Quotes

I've been in many relationships in my life and learned a lot from them, good and bad.

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

I think relationships are really hard. Each one gives you lessons that you need.

Timing is everything with relationships.

I just read 'The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.' To be married 25 years, you have to put as much energy as I put into being an actor or being a great football player into being a better husband and a better father.

It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

Relationships are beautiful, and it's wonderful to find someone you can spend time with and share your life with. But there's also a lot of pressure attached to that. And I think you can't be in a relationship until you have discovered yourself fully.

You kind of restructure your whole personality to be in a healthy relationship.

Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.

It takes two to make a relationship, but only one to screw it up.

I don't think having separate bathrooms is a key to a successful marriage, if you love one another.

In relationships, particularly love relationships, people are impatient.

I think that's what makes a successful marriage: a mindful sense of self and the ability to make clear choices to stay together or choices not to.

Part of my purpose in my books has been to tell the complete story of a relationship and a marriage, not just to end with 'happily ever after,' leaving the protagonists at the altar or in bed... I wanted to show some of the complicated business of actually living a successful marriage.

Everyone's marriage is different. But everyone's marriage is a compromise.

I was not always someone who wanted to get married or thought I would get married, so being a true writer, I was always navel-gazing: 'What are good marriages? What are bad marriages?'

Marriage is more complex than we think.

Any relationship has its strengths and weakness.

I've always been of the mindset that relationships can be different and relationships can go bad with different people. That doesn't mean they're going to be a bad relationship with me.

Partners fall in and out of love, but they still need each other.

Anyone who has been through failed relationships - even people in successful relationships - understand that you gain perspective about what is important to you.

I've been in a long-term relationship, and I'll tell you, it's never boring! People trying to merge their lives together always run into challenges.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.