Cheryl Strayed Quotes

I'm good in bed, actually, and I think I could learn to be a good communicator, too. The only trouble with that is it leads to marriage.

I have an amazing relationship with my wife, but sometimes there are arguments. It happens.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

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!

Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.

Relationships survive on trust, and if that is broken at any point, it's pretty much the end of the relationship. Besides, inability to communicate leads to problems.

I've been married to the same man for all this time. The way we fight sometimes, you can tell.

I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.

It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.

Marriage is something that needs to be worked on every day. I don't know if I'm the one to give marital advice since I've only been married for a little over a year, but marriage is certainly easier if you are open, trusting and loving.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

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

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility?

In marriage, there's a lot of ignoring each other, which is hard to fake on-screen.

Yelling between people in love is normal.

All marriages, all relationships have huge ups and downs.

Marriage is more complex than we think.

In marriage people get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person. If you do want to hurt the other person, then shame on you - you're an asshole. My wife and I do not argue. We communicate. We talk. But we've never fought in our entire relationship.

True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.

It's hard to confront someone without knowing, [but] I think the first thing you should do in a relationship - any kind of relationship - is confront. Then, if they seem shady, maybe go for the email or the text message.

Two people who think they're in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other.

I've learned that sometimes love is not enough. You can have a soul mate and be madly in love with that person, but it's not necessarily enough. I think you have to have personalities that mesh well. You have to be the yin to their yang. You also have to be open to figuring things out together and communicating even when it's the last thing you want to do.

Marriage is about becoming a team. You’re going to spend the rest of your life learning about each other, and every now and then, things blow up. But the beauty of marriage is that if you picked the right person and you both love each other, you’ll always figure out a way to get through it.

Should I marry W.? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name.