Month: October 2013

“I didn’t ever feel that you ‘owned’ somebody else just by dating them…I think young girls these days get so attached. Want to get married and do this and that. Why? Just enjoy yourself!”

“There are things that we all bring into a relationship. I won’t say “baggage,” but it’s your “stuff” that you’ve accumulated over the course of your life. And you have expectations for your life: For your career and for your love…whatever. You have an idea of what you think those things are or what those

“We just accept each other for who we are and focus on all the good in our relationship. As weird and uncomfortable as things sometimes get, the good stuff is so much bigger and better than the bad stuff could ever be. We focus on the good stuff so the bad stuff never becomes big.

“You grow and develop separately…it’s inevitable. Maybe every five or ten years, people need to check in with one another. Assess where they are going and if they’re going along together because you make some vows you know? Sometimes it might be good to look them over once and a while.”

“It’s funny, when you’re first together you think that love will endure everything and it will be the same. But you forget that you change. And that changes how you relate to each other. I never thought about that.”