Alethea Kontis Quotes

I'm a much healthier person through my relationship with my husband. I've become a more fulfilled person - it's a great partnership.

It just makes everything more pleasurable when you've got someone that emotionally is there to rely on.

I feel like I see so much online of people being cynical about never being able to find love, and it's become, like, cool. You don't need it by any means. You can live without it, and you can totally be self-independent and happy. But you can also be in a great relationship that's rewarding and loving and caring - and that exists.

Relationships have been a way of life and I don't regret being in one ever.

Being with someone makes you happier and more content as a human being and takes your personality to greater heights and vice versa. And I don't think that's being too demanding.

You can be very independent, but admit to wanting somebody close to you and that's what me and my wife have. We don't need each other but we want to be with each other and I think it's important to educate the kids with that.

There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.

I couldn't put my hand on my heart and say I think that being in a relationship is a natural state for a human being.

I find running life quite hard, and I like sharing that. Obviously, the companionship, being loved and loving, is fantastic. But I don't feel that I couldn't live without a boyfriend or lover or husband.

I've found a woman I can relate to. That's something - and I don't even feel sappy saying it - that, if anyone has that, don't lose it, because it's probably the only thing that you can ever really find any satisfaction from.

I've got really good friends and family. My parents, after 30 years, are still incredibly in love, still make each other laugh, which is a beautiful thing to see. And my brother and his fiance are completely happy, so if I feel a bit lonely, I just go and sit with them and feel their love.

I like marriage. I feel very secure. It helps when you are in love with the person you are married to.

A woman doesn't just love a man. She loves who he is. And, who he is is dependent on what he needs.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

I just want to be in a relationship.

I love being married.

Whether you're married or not, relationships - and the satisfaction tied to them - are extremely important for increasing men's and women's quality of life.

I want a man in my life, not in my house.

A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.

Perhaps the single most robust fact across many surveys is that married people are happier than anyone else.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.

I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me.