Jenna Johnson Quotes

All relationships are a learning experience, even ones you continue to be in. If you don't see them as that, then that's a problem.

Relationships do change throughout the course of your life, and I always think in terms of relationships changing and evolving rather than starting and stopping.

You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!

Through time you learn from your experiences. I think I've learned to deal with people a little bit better over time. That in particular has developed a little bit.

Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you're in trouble.

You kind of restructure your whole personality to be in a healthy relationship.

Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.

It's been 32 years of learning to communicate. We have had ups and downs.

Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.

You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.

In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

I think relationships are really hard. Each one gives you lessons that you need.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.

I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they each like to do, separately and together.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

People change and forget to tell each other.

Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students.

What I tell young couples that are getting married is: you're going to have quarrels, and on some things, you're just going to have to agree to disagree. And when you go to bed at night, kiss each other and tell each other that you love each other. Don't go to bed mad. Life is too short. Keep it simple.

We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.

I'm somebody's ex-wife, and I did things that drove him nuts. And now I'm somebody's girlfriend, for many years, and I've got different things that drive him nuts.

I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.

If we look honestly at our relationships, we can see so much about how we have created them.