Matthew Hussey Quotes

Since you came back from summer break, our entire relationship is about fooling around. We never talk anymore, and I'm sick of feeling guilty for not ripping my clothes off and spreading my legs to prove I love you.

Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.

If we are focusing on our needs, the relationship is in trouble.

Boundaries get blurry and identities can get lost easily. It's easy to take your partner for granted.

In general, the problem in a relationship is when the couple stagnate.

Suddenly, relationships go topsy-turvy, and guys often don't understand what's going on. I think a lot of men are in that boat.

Couples often live out years of falsehood trying to protect and save a relationship, all the while destroying any chance of real relationship.

When a man takes a woman for granted, he still looks for reassurance that she is still right there.

Breakups usually don't happen down by the river with beautiful lighting. The moment you realize your relationship may be over might happen in Aisle 11 of Rite-Aid and the person you're with has disregarded your feelings and your needs by bringing you the wrong toothbrush again for the fourth time.

He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband.

Things were happening around us, but nothing was happening between us.

The truth is, sometimes too much can happen in a relationship, and then there's nothing anyone can do or say. It's broken.

I was having a bit of trouble. I wasn't in a good relationship. Or I was in too many bad relationships. I had so many girlfriends at that point. None of them seemed to care they weren't pleasing me very much. I was obviously in with the wrong group.

A young lady had only one complaint about her good husband: "My husband always praises me to other people," she said, "Often I hear from friends the wonderful things he has said about me. But I miss something, because he never gets around to saying these some things to me, to my face."

I'm not on good terms with any of my exes. That's why we're not together anymore. We're not friends.

It isn't silence you can cut with a knife any more, it's interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage.

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.

Just the fact that you need me to prove I love you is probably a clue it isn’t working

Sorry," I said to the Duke. "Eh, it's not your fault. It's Carla's fault. You were turning the wheel. Carla just wasn't listening. I knew I shouldn't have loved her. She's like all the others, Tobin; as soon as I confess my love, she abandons me." I laughed. "I never abandoned you," I said patting on her back. "Yeah, well, (a.) I never confessed my love to you, and (b.) I'm not even female to you.

There are crucial things that cause fractures, breaks, whatever in relationships. But no one throws a life away.

At first opposites attract. Then opposites attack.

In a difficult marriage, both of us have failed each other. Even though one may be the major problem,you also have failed often in the way you have responded to them, the way you have treated them, in the way you have handled your hurt and your pain.

We had to break up, though. We wanted different things - like he wanted kids and I wanted him to hear.

Most of the problem I see amongst friends and I've experienced amongst myself is when people haven't accommodated the inequality that they want, they haven't understood that their partner wants to give more love and receive less or they haven't understood that their partner wants to receive more, but sort of give less.

As far as I was concerned, we'd come to a draw: I hadn't wanted to come, and she didn't want me to leave. We were even. But I knew my mother wouldn't see it that way. Lately, we didn't seem to see anything the same.