Breakup Advice

Here are some interesting quotes about breakups that we’ve seen on different websites and pulled together conveniently for you here.

Some of them put breakups into context. Some are quotes about moving on.

Each of the breakup quotes is linked to the page where we found it so that you can explore further to find more related quotes.

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“I don’t miss him, I miss who I thought he was.” – Unknown

– from LovesAGame’s 10 Positive Break Up Quotes And What We Can Learn From Them

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“Breakups aren’t always meant for makeups. Sometimes, they’re meant for wakeups.”

– from Christi Hampton’s Break ups Pinterest page

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“The worst feeling is not being lonely. It’s being forgotten by someone you could not forget.”

– from LoveQuotes1’s Tumblr

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“Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them.” – Unknown

– from Sad Break Up Quotes’ Top 50 Breakup Quotes of All Time

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“Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.” – Gertrude by Herman Hesse

– from Flavorwire’s 30 Literary Breakup Quotes

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“I don’t hate you. I’m just disappointed you turned into everything you said you’d never be.”

– from Caley Horan’s BreakUp Quotes Pinterest page

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“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

– Kahlil Gibran in The Prophet

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“Time is only a healer if you use the time to heal.” – Marina Pearson

– from Five Break Up Quotes To Get You Through A Relationship Breakdown on the Huffington Post

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“If you are going through hell keep going.” – Winston Churchill

– from Five Break Up Quotes To Get You Through A Relationship Breakdown on the Huffington Post

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“Some people think that it’s holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it’s letting go.”

– from Best Breakup Quotes and Sayings

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“Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.” – Rita Mae Brown

– from BrokenHeartedGirl.com’s Breakup Quotes

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If you like these, you might also like Quotes on Relationships or Some of the Best Marriage Advice Quotes from Around the Web.

Do you know of any great quotes about breakups? Let us know about them in the comments. What are your favorites?

Here are some good marriage advice quotes that we found in various places. We hope it is helpful to have these all aggregated here for you. Each quote is linked to the page on which we found it, where you can go to find even more insightful, touching and funny marriage advice quotes.

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“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.” – George Levinger

– from Sharon Palomo-Martinez’s Love & Marriage: Advice, Quotes & Inspirations Pinterest page

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“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” – Sam Keen

– from Happy Wives Club’s Positive Marriage Quotes page

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“The success of marriage comes not in finding the ‘right’ person, but in the ability of both partners to adjust to the real person they ineveitably realize they married.” – John Fischer

– from Healing Hearts Counseling’s Inspirational Quotes for Couples

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“Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.” – Erma Bombeck

– from FinestQuotes.com’s Marriage Quotes page

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“It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel – they get to know each other better.” – Goethe

– from Mandeeadair’s 25 Best Marriage Quotes page

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“Learn how to agree to disagree. No two people agree on everything, and that’s okay, but it’s important to be okay with each other’s differences.” – Lee Bowers, LP, PhD

– from YourTango’s 50 Best Marriage Tips Ever

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“Communicate. Make sure your sentences have verbs. Remember that only 7 percent of communication is verbal. Actions and non-verbal communication speak much louder.”

– from Dr. Phil

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“People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that’s not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner’s faults honestly and say, ‘I can work around that. I can make something out of it.’? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it’s always going to pretty and sparkly, but the crap underneath can ruin you.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

– from GoodReads’ Quotes about Marriage

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“This is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible beings who do not run away from life.” – Paul Tournier

– from About.com’s Quotes about Marriage

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“Chains do not hold a marriage together.  It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.” – Simone Signoret

– From Quote Garden’s Quotations about Marriage

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“It takes two people to fix a marriage. If only one person is trying, it can be compared to a person trying to swim across an ocean with a corpse on their back. You’ll both drown” – Unknown

– from SearchQuotes.com

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“You don’t marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as a result of being married to you.” – Richard Needham

– from Babble.com’s 14 Quotes about Love and Marriage

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“People get from books the idea that if you have married the right person you may expect to go on “being in love” for ever. As a result, when they find they are not, they think this proves they have made a mistake and are entitled to a change – not realizing that, when they have changed, the glamour will presently go out of the new love just as it went out of the old one. In this department of life, as in every other, thrills come at the beginning and do not last… but if you go through with it, the dying away of the first thrill will be compensated for by a quieter and more lasting kind of interest.” – CS Lewis

– from Memajs’ Quotes on Marriage

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If you like these, check out our previous post with quotes on relationships.

And if you have any great relationship or marriage quotes to share, leave them in the comments below.

Someone came to us recently saying “I’ve been wondering how to save my marriage.” They wanted our best advice.

Each marriage is unique in some ways. But there are some things worth keeping in mind when attempting to salvage your partnership.

1. Accept that you can’t save your marriage alone – Even the best person with every relationship skill in the world at their disposal cannot save a relationship with someone who will not do their part. Your partner holds a lot of the chips in this situation. You can only do your best and, if it isn’t enough, live with the peace that comes from knowing you tried.
2. Determine how willing your partner is to communicate – Can you simply say to your partner “I want to know how to save my marriage.”? Is the communication that strong that you can be so open? Or do you have to start smaller and build up? Some partners are willing to talk things out and others are closed off. These situations require different strategies.
3. Start by building rapport – While you might be tempted to jump right into deep relationship discussion, sometimes it’s better to just do something to restore some comfort that you can build upon. What did you and your partner used to do when you were first falling in love? Do something to bring back those feelings and remind them of why you got together in the first place. Or think about what your partner enjoys most and surprise them by setting that up for them. Consider it an olive branch to start the process going.
4. Be conscious of defenses – Most relationship conflict stems from the partners’ emotional defense systems. These systems are set up to protect us from being hurt in ways that we are most sensitive to. They can distort situations because, while you think you are talking about the present, your unconscious minds are stuck in the past. Realizing how these systems work means you can better respond to the defenses, even when they are not rational. Al Turtle’s Relationship Wisdom website has fantastic advice on this subject.

5. Seek counseling – There is no substitute for a great guide to help you navigate the journey. We especially recommend a therapist that specializes in Imago Relationship Therapy. Even if your partner won’t go with you at first, it’s worth going to discuss the situation yourself. Eventually the partner may become more open to the idea, especially as they see the changes in you. If they don’t, you will be in a better position to end the relationship in a healthy way and get through the aftermath with that support in place.

This is the advice we offer to the person who said they wanted to know “how to save my marriage.” And we offer it to you if you are in the same position.

One last bonus note: There is another important question you should ask and that is “Should I save my marriage?” Not every relationship is healthy. If there is enough abuse or dysfunction involved, it may be better to separate. This is a big decision that a therapist can also help you make.