I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.
Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.
Here's something else to think about: calling when you say you're going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of love and trust. If he can't lay this one stupid brick down, you ain't never gonna have a house baby, and it's cold outside.
You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don’t need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith.
I don't understand dating.. and the other things that people do.. all I know is that you ought to find the one you recognize. The one who gives you four arms, four legs, four eyes, and has the other half of your heart. There's only one of those, so what are all the other things for? Like dating?
Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes!
Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.
It's probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he's absolutely lethal.
Women have got it all wrong now. They give it up too soon, and the men don't respect them. And before you tell me I don't have a clue, let me tell you something. By the time I let my future husbands climb into my bed, I'd made them work for it. And you know what? By the time they left it the next morning, they were begging for me to marry them.
Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.
Your single not because you are not good enough for one, it's that you're too good for the wrong one.
When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they’re not really concerned about him; they’re concerned about their daughter’s tummy.
When a man's bank balance becomes too small, his woman flees. For a man to do the same, his woman's body - or vagina - has to do the opposite.
A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover’s world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian’s world revolves around the world.
Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be buried in the credits as something like "Second Tall Man".
To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job.
And I have to say, books haven’t helped much with all this. Because whenever you read anything about love, whenever anyone tries to define it, there’s always a state or an abstract noun, and I try to think of it like that. But actually, love is… Well, it’s just you. And when you go, it’s gone. Nothing abstract about it.
And he likes to torment me, and laughs when I get upset when he does. No, of course not. I do not love Jack Elliot. He is low and coarse and a soldier, and not the kind of man I want to spend my life with.
A man who offers to cook after he's seen you trying to freeze a dead dog has to be at least a little bit keen.
God knows both your name and address. When the right man comes along God will lead him to your door. And that man will recognize your name.
You've got two witnesses here. Happiness is a wholeness issue. If you want to be happy, you need to be whole. If you want to be married, you simply need a mate. If you want to be happily married, you need to be a whole person married to another whole person.
If a woman defined herself solely by the man she was with - and vice versa - the world would be a very shallow and insipid place, indeed.
But I tended not to date men who ever showed up for me.
Dating is like a game. If someone feels like they have won us over too easily, they won’t see our value and will go elsewhere to find something they have to work a little bit harder for.
Jo told me once that she was an old woman everywhere but in her studio. “There I’m only myself,” she’d said. Standing in the middle of masterpieces that only Jo had ever seen and touched, I knew what she meant.
Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.
A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence.
Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love…but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.
One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.
There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But somehow people manage. If your man is using money as an excuse not to marry you, it's your relationship that's insecure, not his bank account.
Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but “safe” isn’t one of them.
Well, I’m sure you’ll find someone somewhere who’ll have you.
Busy' is another word for 'asshole'. 'Asshole' is another word for the guy you're dating.
Cheaters never prosper. (Because they suck.)
I think we're too young to be dating. I mean I don't see what the rush is." Summer says.
"Yeah, I agree," said August. "Which is kind of a shame, you know what with all those babes who keep throwing themselves at me and stuff?
It was one thing to snuggle a little when the world seemed about to end, and quite another to explain to her parents that she wanted to date an ancient magical horse.
Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.
Sometimes we assume that the new person in our life is better for us because they are totally different from the last person we dated. Only later do we see that we have chosen a different version of the same thing and they both leave us unsatisfied.
While she could hardly fathom what had just happened to her that night, she reached some conclusions before she fell asleep, certain things now made perfect sense; Moon River didn’t sound so syrupy, mistletoe wasn’t such a bad idea, and perhaps dating was not such a frivolous waste of time after all.
Love one another. Love yourself. Then love will find you whole not half.
If you don't want to tear off the clothes of the person you're on a date with and jump into bed with them, then what's the point? I'd never date; instead, I'd have lots of good friends and hug them a lot and life would be easier and neater and uncomplicated.
She looked at him, his soft brown eyes and tall form, and contemplated raising herself on her toes and kissing his ear, or his cheek...
Instead, impulsively before leaving, she reached up and smoothed his mussed hair.
Mr. Bradford beamed.
... you've experienced the single scene out there - it's blood test and background checks and references and 'Please pee in this cup before we can go on a date' screenings, all clinical and stripped bare of any romance.
I figure we go through things that make us stronger, but we also go through things that just simply piss us off.
You know what?” he whispered, out of breath, “You’re about to be in a whole lot of trouble. We probably better go.
She had thought he was dead, or at least not totally alive, and you could not still be dating someone you believe had an autopsy, so it was not really cheating.
And since I’m marrying into the Quartet, I have certain privileges and duties. If you’re sleeping with Laurel - ”
“I’m not sleeping with Laurel. We’re dating.”
“Right, and the two of you are just going to hold hands, admire the moon, and sing camp songs.”
“For a while. Minus the singing.
It kind of struck me how great it would be to go out with a guy that size. And if you, you know, got tired of dating him, you could always use him as a house or something.
You talk more when you're nervous," he said, still standing close to her.
"No i don't. That's absurd. I'm just trying to explain to you-"
"Do i make you nervous?"
"No. I'm not nervous."
"You're trembling."
"I'm cold. I'm wearing practically zero clothes."
His glance went to her lips, then back to her eyes. "I noticed.
It is a challenge to love someone who does not see the divine as you do, and much harder still to date someone who considers your spirituality a design flaw in an otherwise worthwhile human being.
And I, Nephi, took one of the daughters of Ishmael to wife.' Well Mr. Go-And-Do just went and did!
True love still exists if you believe in it; just as one candle light shines upon many in darkness, so is the light of ones heart that believes in true love.
I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, that we are our own best friends and best company, and that if you're not right for yourself, it's impossible to be right for anyone.
There’s nothing like that feeling of waiting for a guy. It’s the loneliest feeling in the world. Holding that cell phone in your hand as you take out the trash, use the bathroom, change the litter box. Fearful that the one second you aren’t looking will be when they call. Pathetic. And something I have done as recently as last week.
A good place to meet a man is at the dry cleaner. These men usually have jobs and bathe.
I've found that when you're wrapped up in the process of dating and want so badly to have something work out with someone -anyone- it's easy to forget that your choices aren't limited to one person or the other. There's also the choice I always forget about: To not choose anyone in order to keep myself open to someone who IS right for me.
You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures.
It is the same way with dating. The time you are most prepared for dating is when you don't need anyone to complete you, fulfill you, or instill in you a sense of worth or purpose.
Mistake is an event not a person
If you don't feel the same way about him, if you're just leading him on, you need to tell him that. I've seen too many nice guys get shafted because a girl can't get over some jerk.
Unfortunately, he still hadn’t asked for my number, or a date, or my hand in marriage, and my drink was getting low.
I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands
When a man cheats, it is said it is because he is a dog. When a woman cheats, it is said it is because her man is a dog.
I don't know," she said. "We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and everything, but I thought everything would be so different as soon as you were married. And now I feel so sort of strange and everything. I feel so sort of alone.
A while back, when Dick and Barry and I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for prospective partners.
Two birds went for dating. The male bird was killed and the female bird is being murdered.
Friendship is not by force but by choice.
You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody.
12% of people marry because they are completely in love. 88% of people marry just so they are then liable for only half of their rent.
If a boy doesn't respect his mother...run!
Attitude determines Altitude.
Winners never quit.
No venture, No gain.
If you cannot be yourself in a relationship, you no longer have one.
Having fun is a pretty powerful way to start any serious relationship.
Stop making a relationship about what you get and start making it about what you give, for what you give is what you'll get in return.
No man would ever want a girl who roams nude in a bar and drenches herself in bear on a slumber party.
Dating someone exclusively for four months in New York is like four years in Anchorage.
The male tax?”
“Yeah. The tax that men have to pay for not having to menstruate every month. Or risk getting pregnant. Or deal with the physically stronger sex in a macho world… Women have to put up with all that stuff, so the least we men can do is pay the male tax and get the tab.
Uncommunicated expectations are the shame of relationships.
There are a lot of things wrong with this particular approach to getting your girlfriend to agree to reenter a relationship with you. Probably the biggest problem is that it's a PowerPoint presentation.
That’s all women need men for? Sperm, a paycheck, and free flights?
Dating a man is like flying a kite. You only need to know when to wind up the string or let it out.
Recognize the difference between a dream and a nightmare, and date the man from your dreams, not your nightmares.
There are no failures. Just experiences.
Porn mainly exists to satisfy the physical needs of men. Unfortunately many young men use porn to get educated about sex. But porn is not romance, lovemaking and about an emotional connection with their girlfriend, wife, or lover.
Use the darkness of your past to propel you to a brighter future.
Don't date anyone you can't see yourself marrying.
Good and safe" are all I have been during my romantic career, keeping myself virtuous outside of relationships never putting out before I had a commitment and a half dozen dates under my belt.
Every rose has it's thorn, but that doesn't mean you have to put up with a ton of pricks.
When you end a chapter in your book of 'Wrong Men,' don't close the book of your love story, just turn the page.
A second date always felt like an announcement at his age. And he never felt ready for the announcement.
Sometimes when you lose someone, it’s at that moment that you realize how much they mean to you. And when that happens, and when you think about how you let them slip away, you know you’d do anything just to have them there with you again.
If you can't ignore imperfections, then your imaginary ideal soulmate will always remain pending till you grow old and die.
When it comes to sex: some men treat women as objects; some women treat objects as men.
Most women have low standards. All they strive for is a highly paid man.
You are far too amazing to be someone's backup. You're someone's first choice.
People pleasing doesn't allow you to receive.
If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.
Tedious as it may appear to some to dwell on the discovery of odds and ends that have, no doubt, been thrown away by the owner as rubbish ... yet it is by the study of such trivial details that Archaeology is mainly dependent for determining the date of earthworks. ... Next to coins fragments of pottery afford the most reliable of all evidence ...
The thought of being completely dependent disturbs people till the moment their eyes are opened to reality.
If you don't know what it is you're looking for you're NEVER going to find it. You have to be clear on what it is you're seeking.
Maddison de la Botella, licence to drill.
Then what’s this?” She raised her glass of expensive wine, used it to indicate their plush surroundings.
His gaze followed her indication around the dim-lit, upmarket Italian restaurant. “Dinner in comfort.”
“With a side order of persuasion?”
“More like an offer I’m hoping you can’t refuse.
Basically, dating is like climbing a volcano and you never know when it’s going to erupt, dumping molten lava and burning you