You almost certainly find me a threat – a threat to your career, your relationship, your masculinity.
"Without the marital relationship, your honor, society would come to an end".
He tepidly offered an apocalyptic warning: "Without the marital relationship, Your Honor, society would come to an end".
You fit them in — one, two and often three of them — with your career, your relationship, your other projects.
But the bad qualities are the test of the relationship; your commitment is to their bad qualities.
Volunteering is a two-way relationship: Your time and energy should be repaid with enriching experiences, and the chance to develop transferable skills.
"The intimacy of a relationship, your emotional engagement with it, correlates very tightly with the frequency of your interactions," he said.
"'That relationship – your relationship – is something different; it is something less; your commitment is denied.' And it's that idea of difference, of alien, of other that is at the root of all bullying, including homophobic bullying".
O'Grady said Benetton's donation should "reflect the size of your company and take into account the direct relationship your company had with at least one of the factories in the building".
In any event, this approach is in keeping with my conviction that if you are married every day you must be giving that relationship your all — as best you can.
In addition, by not realizing that you are incurring a cost for the sake of the relationship, your partner might not understand when you want her to return the favor the next time a sacrifice is called for.
