Jamie Clayton Quotes

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

When trust works out right, it can be absolutely magical.

Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.

The only people who make love all the time are liars.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

Here's what I've learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

Trust is not about what you can or cannot do in the name of love but who you are and what you choose to reveal as things progress and evolve.

I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides.

Luckily, my wife is amazing. She's one of the few people in my life I'm completely honest with. I've told her everything about my past. She knows me inside and out. There's no secrets at all.

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

Any time you have intimacy with someone, there is something between them.

Intimacy is healing.

Trust is important in any relationship, not just a romantic one.

You can have levels of trust, and you can question trust, but it shouldn't be something that's absent. I think, for any sort of relationship, there has to be levels of that.

Love' is a big step. It's a big word. You have to work your way to it.

Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated.

I cannot just blindly love someone.

The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.

Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.

Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the only real path to love.

Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.

Trust is even more important than love.

Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.