Rafael Yglesias Quotes

If two people live together, one has to be patient, and typically, the other one is very annoying.

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

I don't think love is a tricky issue at all. Love is best understood when we share: Share time, energy, food, resources, insights, information, whatever. It's usually thought of as something that exists between two people, but that's just because it's easier to see and feel in the space between them. Each person is sharing a lot with the other.

I think relationships are really hard. Each one gives you lessons that you need.

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!

Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.

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.

The dynamic between two individuals starts off with everything warm and nice and fabulous and good. Working and living together can serve you quite well, but when it starts to go wrong - oh, boy!

The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.

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

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

In every relationship, there are two perspectives to it.

A relationship takes two people to make or break it.

It's important to have frank discussions about what the other wants. To be in a relationship that is like a little lifetime, that's a challenge.

There are interesting tensions that will naturally occur with any relationship. No matter what setting, what era, the tension is very, very real. It's basic human tension.

Any relationship has its strengths and weakness.

All relationships are complicated in some way - you fight, you make up, you laugh, you get angry. It happens.

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

Life with another person is always difficult.

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

Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.

Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.

But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.

Every relationship has its complications.

I think when a couple stays together, it's because of compromises they've both made.