Quotes about Expectations

Often after years of deep investment into others we are shocked and disappointed that they simply didn't get who we really are.

Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage.

You may marry the man of your dreams ladies but fourteen years later you're married to a couch that burps.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty?one that everything afterward savors of anti?climax.

Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.

Part of me doesn't even know if we're together. I mean, we are-she likes me, and I want to run off to Mexico with her. So yeah, that's together, right? I guess I don't need a ring or anything.

Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short. Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.

Does he love me? Does he love anyone more than me? Does he love me more than I love him? Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short. Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.

If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.

This absurd jealousy, grounded as it was in mere hypotheses, proved that he considered her fidelity an unconditional postulate of their relationship. How then could he begrudge her her jealousy of his very real mistresses?