Partnership Struggles Quotes

The dynamic between two individuals starts off with everything warm and nice and fabulous and good. Working and living together can serve you quite well, but when it starts to go wrong - oh, boy!

I don't think it's easy to be married to anyone.

If I get married, it's something you really have to work at. It's hard enough to work at having a relationship with best friends and girls that are in the business.

As soon as you say 'I do,' you'll discover that marriage is like a car. Both of you might be sitting in the front seat, but only one of you is driving. And most marriages are more like a motorcycle than a car. Somebody has to sit in the back, and you have to yell just to be heard.

Every couple goes through things.

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

It's really hard to grow with another person.

I've been in a long-term relationship, and I'll tell you, it's never boring! People trying to merge their lives together always run into challenges.

I knew that it was harder to unite two lives than I had imagined growing up. I knew that relationships could be fragile.

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

Marriage is the tomb of love.

When people are courting, many of them think that when they get married, that's it, and everything will be on Easy Street. But you really have to work even harder once you're married, because the challenges are that much greater.

Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth. Mrs Miracle

It's not easy having a partnership in this business.

'Gone Girl' is as much about the near impossibility of being a good husband as it is about the anguish of being a good wife.

If you've ever been a person who is running a successful brand or business and with someone who is doing the same, but in a different career path, you know that times can be tough. You're both always away. You're exhausted at the end of the day. Sometimes the relationship isn't being put first, but does that mean, 'Oh, you call it quits?' No.

I've always thought men and women are not too well suited to each other. It's inevitable that they should come together, but, again, how well suited are they to live together in the same house?

But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.