Interpersonal Struggles Quotes

Difficulties arise whenever a committed relationship is succeeding. Love makes you vulnerable. . . . Your defenses relax and the dark side of your personality arises. . .

In love there are two evils: war and peace.

Callin my ex-girl or e-mailin my mama, you're the only one that's causin me this drama.

Everybody hates dependence, and that's why couples are continuously fighting, not knowing why they are fighting. They have to meditate over it, they have to contemplate over it, why they are fighting. Everything is just an excuse to fight. If you change one excuse, another excuse will be found; if no excuse is left then excuses will be invented, but somehow the fight has to be there.

It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.

As I grew up and really - 22, 23, 24 - I was faced with new problems that were bigger. A lot of them were issues that pertained to people that were super close to me.

Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.

Why was love so easy for some people and so hard for others?

Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it's the place where we find the deepest heartache.

Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant.

The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter.

The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.

In politics, almost everywhere we see what looks like the externalisation of psychic wounds or deficits.

The more you think that you are watching a show about sex, the more you ultimately are watching a show about the challenges of just connecting with human beings and being intimate.

Love didn't always solve the problem; sometimes it became the problem.

What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.

Love has as few problems as a motor car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.

Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.

I've never been able to reuse characters, I've often wanted to. I've never been able to get people to cooperate. I can't get anyone together on any kind of deal.