Gavyn Davies Quotes

It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.

The wonderful thing about my husband is that we are very good at being independent.

I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone.

I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.

I think its wonderful to have a relationship where you both go out and live your lives, and you bring something to the table because you've had other interactions.

I don't believe that if you love somebody you have to possess him, live with him or marry him.

I find that when I'm in a relationship, I'm just so 'in it,' you couldn't even call it an art; it's such embroilment. With a friendship, you can choose a little bit more how to behave. You can be guided more.

a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.

It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Too many people get married and lose themselves. You have to fiercely hold on to who you are, and you need to celebrate that in the other person because that's what made you fall in love in the first place.

My wife needs her freedom just like me.

Perhaps my problem in marriage - and it is the problem of many women - was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

I have a lady, she's a great lady. I love her a lot, she loves me. We're on the same page. Whenever that day happens when we're not on the same page we'll move forward with it. We're interested in having our lives be our lives right now and not a third person's vis-a-vis marriage and whatever that means.

Marriage changes everything. I want full control over my life. When you share your life with somebody else, you can't have full control. You have to give a lot of control away. You share each other's lives.

It is a false belief to think you can own somebody, I'm out of that now. The man should understand he does not own the woman, and the woman should understand she does not own the man.

I wouldn't want to be in a relationship where I'm not even free to be myself.

I love Will Smith and Jada Pinkett. You see the love, and you can see the support, and they partner on things and produce together. But she has a life, and he has a life.

I've always been very independent. Even in relationships, I'm focused on the quality of my life and not enmeshing myself so much with somebody else's experience. But I think there's incredible value in being married.

Rather than look at a marriage as two people morphing into one thing, you could see two individuals who are choosing to form a partnership.

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.

I don't like people telling me what to do. I'm very independent.

Look for someone who has a complete life without you in it. If you have a person you don't need for anything, that's ideal. You're just together because you really want to be.