Intimacy Issues Quotes

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

I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.

Most romances aren't swept aside by big historical events. Most romances in the history of the world fall apart because of other, smaller happenings. History can sometimes be in the background, the thing which instead of rupturing your life merely irritates you by pressing itself now and then into the foreground.

he knows too much about himself to subject her to a morning after, when he will be cold, surly, impatient to be alone.

Every woman I've had a relationship with has found this maddening; the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when I'm at home, I clam up and won't discuss anything intimate or personal.

I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.

I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.

I just don't like to get intimate. I don't want anyone to know what I feel and what I think, and if they can't get some kind of an idea of what sort of person I am through my music, then that's too bad.

There was one time where I failed to perform sexually. My girlfriend said to me "oh don't worry, it happens to a lot of guys". Ok, there are two things wrong with that. First of all who are these other guys?, and second of all if it's happening to more than one of us, don't you think it could be YOUR fault?

It's strange to be so physically close to someone who's so distant

I feel that flip-flops are the downfall of many relationships. It's, like, first it's the flip-flops, and then it's the sweatpants...it's the gateway drug to no sex.

I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can't be locked up with anyone for too long.

I've never dated. I can say this honestly: I don't know what it's like to date. But also, how am I going to date? I'm not in one state long enough.

Neither of us seemed able to be close to anyone. Not even each other. Closeness meant the one you loved the most would cause you the most damage. How did you unlearn that? It was woven deep between every fiber and vessel. You couldn't cut it out.

I'm a bad lover. Once I caught a peeping tom booing me.

Clint Eastwood's sex therapist, who said to Clint, Do it any which way you can, but no sudden impact. Never got a dinner!

I jest, of course; premature ejaculation isn't a laughing matter for anyone, except for your friends when you tell them about it on the phone the next morning. My first marriage ended because the main event was invariably over before my husband got his socks off.

I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras.

I have such trust complexes. I'm close to, like, two people.

I'm very independent. I'm not sure how I'd deal with someone who wanted to be with me 24/7.

Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.

A lot of people fall in love because you're sharing your body with someone. And sometimes you get it twisted, and you think that that's real love.

Sex can sometimes become the most horrible of tasks.

Sex problems never are, they are troubles of the heart.