193 Quotes About Partnership

Partners co-evolve by struggling to solve the problems they co-create through their efforts to avoid growing.

Our beliefs about traditional marriage date from agrarian cultures, where you made everything you ate or wore or used, where large extended families helped get this huge amount of work done so nobody starved, and where marriage was a working proposition. When we talk about “traditional family values,” this is the family we are talking about: an extended family of grandparents and aunts and cousins, an organization to accomplish the work of staying alive.

It seemed that the marriage had reached the traditional truce, the point at which so many resign themselves to cutting both their losses and their hopes.

Sqauash is the only gane where you call your ‘opponent’ a ‘partner’, and both of you play on the same side!

I will spend my life believing in you so that you will someday commit to doing the same.

Failure to sleep with someone is now an act of hostility, whereas it was once understood to be part of the natural process of searching for one’s mate.

Angel, in the future, there will be things I feel like I must do as a man, as a husband, as a father, and you will not always find them agreeable. I can only promise you that I will use my best judgment, my utmost caution, so that I won’t leave behind a widow and an orphan.

Vulnerability creates unimaginable space to build each other up, as much as it creates ample room to tear each other down.

A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.