Affairs Quotes

“The goal of therapy is not a perfect relationship; it is to make some level of disconnection bearable to both parties.”
― The School of Life, Affairs

“We stand to remember that we surrendered our freedom for very sound reasons, because we realised that we had found someone who was – in the end – about as good as any decent human can ever be expected to be. We are often unhappy, of course, but that is a universal law, not a unique curse.”
― The School of Life, Affairs

“An affair puts our vagabond romantic imaginations usefully to the test; it challenges our unfair, sentimental suspicions that the pain and melancholy we sometimes feel is specifically the fault of our partner, rather than a general feature of existence.”
― The School of Life, Affairs

“However, with our lover, we have the chance to start the story of ourselves anew. Whatever we may feel about them, it is how they make us feel about ourselves that can be at the core of their appeal. In their company, we can present facets of who we are that have been sidelined in our main relationship.”
― The School of Life, Affairs

“The person who cannot tolerate secrets, who in the name of ‘being honest’ always has to share information so wounding it cannot be forgotten, is no friend of love.”
― The School of Life, Affairs

“However much they love the truth, good people have an even greater commitment to something else: being kind towards others.”
― The School of Life, Affairs

“We are so impressed by honesty that we forget the virtues of selective secrecy, which doesn’t have to mean a cynical withholding of important information, but a dedication to not rubbing someone up against the full and more hurtful aspects of one’s nature.”
― The School of Life, Affairs

“One of the best guarantees of long-term love is not to insist that our partner be everything whatsoever for us.”
― The School of Life, Affairs

“We must never be furious with our beloved for not grasping facets of our identity we haven’t yet properly managed to share with them.”
― The School of Life, Affairs

“The world has, without our really noticing it, grown predictable and stale. Our expectations are fixed. Our knowledge seems established. But the lover is showing us that life is so much richer than we had dared to think.”
― The School of Life, Affairs

“In long-term love, we are the prisoners of history.”
― The School of Life, Affairs