Relationship Duration Quotes

Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.

Everybody expects the fairy tale - you're going to be together forever with somebody. I don't really subscribe to that. I'd love that to happen if that happened, but ten years is enough. Ten years is a good thing with somebody, I think. It's a nice thing. A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Most of the longer-term relationships I've known have been gay relationships. They seem to be able to hang out longer.

Even though Kate had only known Hale for a little more than two years, she had seen him in a lot of situations.

I was with my wife for five years before we got married, so we've been together since I was 22.

I've been in a relationship for almost two years now, so I'm kind of locked in there. My mind doesn't even really remember when I was single, to be honest.

Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.

If a man and woman live together continuously for a year, they are considered to be married

Did I think it would last 30 years? No, I didn't think it would have those kind of legs.

Don't ever spend more than three weeks apart. Two and a half weeks, maybe three, was the longest we ever did.

The truth is, some relationships are supposed to last forever, and some are only supposed to last a few days. That’s the way life is.

I could not possibly be in a relationship now for more than six days. When I was younger, I might have said six months, although I think the longest relationship I was ever in was three years.

My wife - I married my onscreen girlfriend from 'Growing Pains', Mike Seaver's girlfriend, and we've been married for 17 years - so marriage is very important to us.

I think there are beautiful moments. These days everybody expects that fairy tale , that you're going to be together forever with somebody and I don't really subscribe to that. I'd love that to happen if that happened, but 10 years is enough. 10 years is a good thing with somebody, I think. It's a nice thing. A lot of good love can happen in 10 years.

I've had, like, four long-term boyfriends. I tend to be in relationships for long periods of time.

Do I think human beings are meant to be in 40-year-long monogamous, faithful, relationships? No, No, No. Whoever said they were? Only the Bible or something. No one ever said that was a good idea.

The idea that marriage has to be for all time - that I don't understand.

Lot's of marriages don't last as long as Queen have been together.

How long have you known me, Jack? And you still don't know how to spell my name.

To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?

I go short and sweet on the engagement. I did have a longish engagement, but I think short and sweet is best.

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.

If you can stay in love for more than two years, you're on something.

Sometimes relationships are short, sometimes long, sometimes they're very deep and intense, and drama school is a hell of a learning curve.

I was in a relationship with a girl I loved for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you've got to start thinking about other things, and I'm too young to think about those things.