Lynn Coady Quotes

My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.

It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

Marriage gives you a new respect for a person.

Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well.

They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.

It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other.

Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.

To work with someone you love is something special, an incredible experience. But it could be a negative. You have to make a strong commitment to be honest; you're not just being polite, like strangers on an airplane; you're working.

I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead, I think of more like, 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.'

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.

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

Everyone's marriage is different. But everyone's marriage is a compromise.

Partners fall in and out of love, but they still need each other.

I have an idea of marriage as being a sharing type of deal.

You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want.

I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.

The only time a relationship is good is when you really love them.

Free love never works.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.