We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.
When I first became recognizable from appearing on television, I abused my notoriety as much as I possibly could, at the expense of both my health and personal relationships.
Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.
There are some men who enter a woman's life and screw it up forever.
A true apology is more than just aknowledgment of a mistake. It is recognition that something you have said or done has damaged a relationship and that you care enough about the relationship to want it repaired and restored.
I will not be alone if I am my true self. Only by trading my true self for the companionship of another have I ever made myself alone. Because when I gave up my real self, I wound up resenting my "significant other" for "making me" do that-and it was this resentment that ate away at our relationship.
Trust takes one second to lose and a lifetime to rebuild.
I am deeply aware of the disappointment and hurt that my infidelity has caused to so many people, most of all my wife and children.
I'm not a proponent of staying together and being miserable and damaged and coming through actually a more battered person.
What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things - either to lose your loan or lose your friend.
The betrayal meant he couldn't trust her anymore, and his heart told him he couldn't forgive her.
love gave someone the power to break you. I'd been broken beyond repair.
Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.
If you are married and you go off and have an affair with someone, if you are a husband who does that, it may potentially hurt your wife enormously. But it seems to me likely also to compromise your marriage. That seems to me to be a harm.
Forgiveness prompted by love is the only way to repair the devastation that so often mars our relationships.
In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.
Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.
If you deceive someone, you lose one of life's greatest treasures, you lose the capacity to trust. Because without trust, love is not possible.
All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.
I think that passion if really intense is always destructive if not to the two involved, always to other people.
Marriage wrecks any decent relationship.
Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.
I've become very interested in the ways things can change even with someone you've known for many years and you've committed to for life. How drastic can you damage things in the way you speak to someone?
Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.
