Joyce Brothers Quotes

Well, it's really important to be honest with the person that you're seeing.

The only people who make love all the time are liars.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. It's just remarkable.

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.

I think probably honesty is the biggest quality I look for in a relationship. Being exactly who you are with the other person.

When you can have a relationship that's like that to where everything is out in the open, you are up front, and there is open communication, it makes for a great relationship.

Don't lie to your partner. Ultimately the expression on your face gives you away, and they feel betrayed by the lie. If this is the person you're going to be with - forever and ever, for better or worse - they will love you for all of your good and all of your bad. They'll love you for you. So open communication is key. I have no secrets and no skeletons in my closet with my husband, and I love that. I feel comfortable and at ease with myself when I'm around him. I love the woman that I've become with him.

Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth. I know it sucks, but in a way, it's good....Love and truth being tied together, I mean. They make each other possible, you know?

But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being.

For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary - to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

Real men know how to listen, and real men know how to be honest.

I'm not really much of a shopper. I have to say that I'd definitely prefer good sex. What makes good sex? Oh my god. I think you need to feel free and you have to really trust the other person. And you have to have that strange, mysterious chemical connection.

Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.