relationship norms Quotes

I've never even come close to having a one-night stand.

I don't know, monogamy is a weird thing for me.

I felt like if any two people had any kind of sexual affinity for each other they had to sleep with each other immediately, otherwise it was a terrible betrayal and waste...Fortunately, I'm relieved of those obsessions now. It's really wonderful. It's really wonderful not feeling you have to sleep with everybody.

If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.

I do believe in the traditional definition of marriage.

I'll only move in with my husband. There's no question of a live-in relationship.

I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.

The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.

My girlfriend wants an open relationship. I said no way. What kind of man would I be if I had to tell my friends I date you?

Social mores change all the time. In the mid-1970s, it would've been astonishing, say, to see two men holding hands in the streets. And the attitude to having a fling with a girl, or whatever, was quite different then.

I refuse to believe that clubbing is how people are supposed to meet to establish relationships on a level for beyond what we consider to be a norm in modern society.

I don't think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It's not necessarily some state of grace.

Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.

The dating process is not normal for me.

What a strange world this is when you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo.

All lovers unconsciously establish their own rules of the game, which from the outset admit of no transgression.

The whole dating ritual was different when I was a kid. Girls got pinned, not nailed.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

It may be a masculine attitude to take lovers, but it's definitely prevalent. I'm certainly not the oldest person doing it - not that I'm doing it right now, but when I was.

I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors.

Revolution in Love’. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity?

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

I'm a big proponent of monogamous relationships regardless of sexuality, and I'm proud of how the nation is steering toward that.

For most people their ideal life involves an intimate relationship with another person; one which often has a sexual basis. But there's no logic about it; why shouldn't people choose to live together with someone they just like? 'Of course' if we were too unquestioning about it, and we said 'well, that person has got to be someone of the opposite sex, and it's got to be for life, and divorce is terrible', then we're stuck. But if you don't recognize the importance that kind of bond has for human beings - you can't really understand what is needed to live a good life.

I don't believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn't been told about it. It's like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn't been told it existed.