Relationship Imbalance Quotes

I loved her more than she loved me, that was the problem. A basic imbalance. Relationships like that never last, however hard you try. And now she's pregnant and in love with a man who'll never love her the way she loves him. It's a series of vicious circles, and the only way to stop it is to find someone who loves you the same. No power struggle. No insecurities. Just friendship. Because you can never be friends with someone if you love them too much.

You shouldn't miss someone who don't miss you, right?

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

Love is woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall. It is a game at which men must play against stacked cards, and without the slightest inkling of the trump.

When you are a minority, it's your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work. Then you start to realise, 'Oh, I'm bending a lot,' and they're just standing there existing, and I'm bending around them. But you can't blame them: they don't realise it; that's just how they already existed. It's hard.

People want to believe that every marriage is perfect balance but it isn't. One person always loves more deeply than the other

I've always gotten myself overly involved in supporting other women who've not always been as supportive in return.

I'm not the king in my own house. I have to wash the dishes and take out the trash and say, 'Yes, baby.' I'm 6-foot-5, but I kind of walk around hunched over.

But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him.

Unfortunately, some women want to remake their husbands after their own design.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.

I have always thought that every woman should marry and no man.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

There are a lot of women who feel that they have done all the work in their relationship only for someone else to step in and take the love and credit for it.

All the older men are going for younger women, leaving the women with no one.

I'm always helping out girlfriends, and then I'm wondering, who's going to look after me?

"It's not just about Jen," he said. "It's about the entire romantic system. Ninety-nine percent of men are in love with the top one percent of women. And yet they often refuse to date us. It's a complete injustice.

We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.

In most relationships, somebody cares about the other one more and that's usually why you get out of a relationship because it's not reciprocated.

Every single time you crossed over for me and met me on my side. I realize now, I don't think I ever met you in the middle. And I don't think I ever once said that you for that.

I'm a good uncle, but I'm not a great caretaker. I feel oftentimes pretty selfish within the relationships I have with my siblings and, historically, with what I give back versus what I've taken over the years.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.