Relationship Demands Quotes

Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.

And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

In America, we are demanding everything from our marriage.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

I feel like if I'm sick, I need flowers. I'm very open about saying what I need from a partner, and he needs to meet those demands.

The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love.

The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.

People today expect too much from marriage. Getting married is really like taking on a big new job.

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.

Younger men are more supportive and a lot less demanding, and they also have more time for their relationships.

Love is much more demanding than law.

Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.

You have to be willing to give a lot to be in a relationship with me because a lot of the time it's about me.

If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do: You must learn how to make a perfect chicken-dumpling stew. And you must sew my holey socks, And soothe my troubled mind, And develop the knack for scratching my back, And keep my shoes spotlessly shined. And while I rest you must rake up the leaves, And when it is hailing and snowing You must shovel the walk...and be still when I talk, And-hey-where are you going?

I've finally found somebody who's up to the task of being my wife, because I'm very ... high maintenance.

For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more than his surface to others. There are few demands to be met, and no commitment is required. Marriage, on the other hand, closes the door. Your existence is confined to a narrow space in which you are constantly forced to reveal yourself – and therefore, constantly obliged to look into yourself, to examine your own depths.