Mariella Frostrup Quotes

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've definitely been in relationships with friends where I wanted to do something different than I know a friend has. It's that complicated balance between wanting to do what you know is right for you and not wanting to hurt someone's feelings.

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.

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.

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

Whenever I'm talking about relationships, it's always at least three things. It's my relationship with myself, my relationship with God or an idea, and then usually somebody, a real person. I try to operate on all three levels at the same time, and it's difficult, but I never want to have a break-up song or something like that.

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

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.

If it's not working before you get married, marriage isn't going to fix it.

I was never very mature in my relationships with women. First sign of conflict, I was gone.

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

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!

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.

My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.

What I've learnt is never to work with the person you are in a relationship with because sometimes you need a break.

I think when you're in a relationship, either you have something or your partner generally has something that you're having to deal with.

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

The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings.

I am terrible at relationships.

It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.

The one thing I'm very aware of is I've never been particularly good at relationships.

Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.