Top 77 Quotes & Sayings by Amy Dickinson - Page 2

Perspective is the enemy of long-lost love.

If you turn the heat down on the relationship, she will soften, the tension will lessen, and she will eventually inch closer to you. Don't go in for the hug until you achieve a handshake.

Have you ever noticed how bored people are also boring?

Almost any group of three is going to form a triangle, with two points closer to one another.

Not every relationship can be altered to fit.

If you've got a good book with you, you're never bored (or alone).

Couples who have been together for a long time say the key to staying together is to work as a team toward the greater good, tolerating some tough (even tragic) times to grow together and work toward a mature kind of union.

In life, you don't get instant satisfaction. In life, you get to slog. You work. You grow. You take the long view. You fill the void with self-actualization.

One person gets to decide if something is a problem in a relationship.

Groveling for connection from someone who compares you to Hitler is not good for a person's self-esteem.

One of the privileges of adulthood is that your parents don't get to tell you what to do.

One of the benefits of being divorced is that you no longer need to listen to your ex's assessment of the appropriateness of your actions.

Ask 10 people about their family relationships and at least five of them will report an estrangement.

Needy and boring parents tend to have needy and bored children.

He sounds like someone who might best be loved from a distance.

A threat is a promise followed by a consequence.

Sometimes toxic people are so resistant to change that therapy does not really help them - but they send everybody else into therapy to find ways to cope.