Tracy McMillan Quotes

My one area of vulnerability was I didn't know how to have a healthy relationship with a man.

I am terrible at relationships.

I wanted to write about relationships in a more honest, raw sort of way. Get away from all those cliches about how 'time heals' and how you can be the better person. Less sugar-coating and more 'feel the pain.'

A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.

I have so many questions about love. How do you win at it? Especially if you're in a relationship with an impossible person? What if you believe in someone who's completely untrustworthy, who at their core can't even believe in themselves?

I mean, I love being with friends and I love kissing and loving someone to pieces. But it's hard to find someone who doesn't ultimately start judging you and your choices.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Relationships are something I know about.

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

Love makes me vulnerable. In business I'm tough on myself - I'm like a drill sergeant. If I'm down, I'm used to getting right back up, but when it comes to love, your heart can't do that.

Free love never works.

Love is hard.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It's a real emotional ride.

My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.

When we're children we're told love is going to be great: Just fall in love, the rest will take care of itself - and then we fall in love and we realize, Okay, this is actually really, really hard work. This guy doesn't just tell me I'm great every day, you know?

I think the hardest thing to do in a relationship is something for yourself.

I hate, for example, whenever you hear someone say, 'You have work at being a couple.'

It's so easy to grow apart; marriage takes work.

Without really trying to, I've become a sort of jailhouse lawyer of relationships - someone who's had to do so much work on her own case that I can now help you with yours.

I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.

I think what you learn from relationships is that they are unpredictable.

It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.