Monica Johnson Quotes

If the guy does not treat you with love and respect, does not cease-and-desist with all the game playing, is not willing to share his world with you, then he is bad for you.

I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I'm not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person - love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.

I've always thought with relationships, that it's more about what you bring to the table than what you're going to get from it. It's very nice if you sit down and the cake appears. But if you go to the table expecting cake, then it's not so good.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

You don't have to dumb down - you just have to find a clever, good, secure man. I've found a couple - I've been lucky - but it's probably hard for everybody to find that true love of a good man.

As I get older I realize what qualities are important in love and what suits me. And what I won't settle for.

I think if you're in love, you're willing to do anything that comes with it.

Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

When you are seeing somebody, then obviously it's a commitment. And if you don't want to commit, then don't be in a relationship. Every relationship deserves a certain credibility and respectability. For me, it's always been like that.

I think I bring the songs that aren't about me or related to me to life. It's like the song 'How Do I Let A Good Man Down?' Let me tell you, I didn't write that song - because if I have a good man, I ain't going to let him down.

If I get in a relationship, it's always for the long-term; if not, I don't see the point.

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.

You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

Trust is not about what you can or cannot do in the name of love but who you are and what you choose to reveal as things progress and evolve.

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.

Love is... never asking for more than you are prepared to give.

A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don't have those, you don't have love.

Even though my first marriage broke up, I'd say that I've had two good marriages and two good men. I've been very lucky. I like to think it's karma because, in a relationship, I give 300 per cent. I'm straight with my men, and I like to think it comes back.

It's important to fall in love with someone you don't want to change.

In the past I would self destruct when it came to love - I was immature, throwing myself into things but now times have changed, I want a relationship where you understand the other person.

I'm not one to run around with different girls. I like someone that makes me feel good and that I can make feel good.