Unbalanced Relationships 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.

At some point, we have each said through our tears, “I’m suffering for a love that’s not worth it.” We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules. But ultimately there is no good reason for our suffering, for in every love lies the seed of our growth.

I have been married twice, and those were not the happiest times of my life. Part of the problem, quite frankly, is that when you get married, the romance disappears and the children arrive and the love is transferred. It shouldn't be that way, but too often it is transferred to the children.

Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time.

We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

'Not A Love Story' is inspired by true events, but it is not based on those events completely. When I first read about the Maria Susairaj case, I was fascinated with the psychological aspects, that two seemingly very ordinary people can go completely berserk.

Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.

I lost many friendships because of my wealth. When my friends met me, they had an agenda in mind. Just because I had money, they expected one thing or the other from me, which they didn't before.

Love's never a fair trade.

Every relationship I've been in, I've overwhelmed the girl. They just can't handle all the love.

I can't do it. I've been here before and it's not a room with a view. The only power I have is the negative power of withdrawal. If I don't withdraw I have no power at all. A relationship where one person has no power or negative power, isn't a relationship, it's the bond between master and slave.

My friendships all tend to be quite steady, so it's really hard to novelise that stuff because it's just boring. I mean, there's interesting conversations, but there's no power struggle. And you can't work with equilibrium; you have to work with something that's just off and then observe how it tries to correct itself.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Oh, I've been in love with every woman I've ever worked with.

Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.

I often wonder if my relationships don't work out because I am the more Alpha one and the focus is on me and men don't like that.

Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.

In order not to hold a frame with someone, you have to be intimidated by them.

I think if you push to get to know somebody, it's not a natural evolution.

Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot supply.

Putting all your eggs in one basket has never worked for me. Personally, I find if I decide too quickly that someone is my match, I start to get a little nutty.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Knowing so many people like myself who are singers and in traveling bands, the people you're in a relationship with feel slighted because they feel you're giving all your energy to your fans, and there's a lot of truth to that.

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

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.