Relationship Costs Quotes

....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?

There is no love without loss. It’s a package deal.

Love is very powerful, but it has limits and it's a costly mistake to spread it too thin.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

You don't want to move in with someone and find out that they don't have auto or health insurance. That's a rude awakening.

...if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.

It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

Today is February 14th - St. Valentine's day. Women call it Love day, while men name it as Extortion day.

Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal.

Most unmarried people have no idea what it takes to make a marriage work; they grossly underestimate the price people have to pay to build long-term, mutually satisfying relationships. And they fail to understand that the only people with the strength to pay that price are those who have plumbed the depths of their relationship with God, and have dealt with their own brokenness.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

Dogs are not people. Be leery of any woman who refers to her dogs as her 'kids,' because you'll only end up paying for their schooling.

Many a wedding takes place when a man can't afford to go steady with a girl any longer.

In every romance you have to budget for the occasional dust-up.

Unless a woman asks men out (the first time) as often as men ask her out, then the assertion 'He asked me out, therefore he pays' is just a double jeopardy of the male role: he must not only do the asking, he must pay extra for risking extra rejection.

In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the joy and amusement and protection and companionship he gave us.

War is like any other bad relationship. Of course you want out, but at what price? And perhaps more importantly, once you get out, will you be any better off?" - Quellcrist Falconer

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Marriage is an investment which pays dividends if you pay interest.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Living apart is hardly possible if people have children together. It can also be more expensive to maintain two homes. But then, it's expensive to break up when you live in one property.

In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.