Patricia Hewitt Quotes

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

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

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 think every relationship is going to go through a few rough patches. Those are what make it stronger, I think.

It's really hard to grow with another person.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years.

If you have a difficult marriage, it's the hard times that make it better. If you have a relationship, it's the hard times that actually make it better, and that goes for life as well.

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.

My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved.

I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.

My wife has taught me about unconditional love. When there's a conflict, there's never a thought that we won't work it out.

There are curveballs that are thrown at you, and you just have to get over it and forgive... if you believe you're perfect, and you don't believe in forgiveness, you're not meant to be married.

I've had this conversation with friends who have had challenging relationships with one or another parent. The only thing I can say is what I feel: The other person isn't going to change. That is who they are.

Conflict, when handled correctly, strengthens.

Joy and happiness don't strengthen relationships - difficulty does.

In any relationship you have times where it gets tedious. But that becomes a strength. That you are able to hang around someone even when they get on your nerves.

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

If a relationship is going to work, it will require compromise and, even then, it is not always going to end the way you want it to.

There comes a crossroads in every marriage where you grow together or grow apart. I outgrew Len. He wanted me to be in that leather jumpsuit for the rest of my life and do nothing else. He constrained me. It got to a point where the marriage died or I did.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

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

Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn't happy. The next obvious candidate for introspection was my marriage.