100+ Best Quotes on Relationship Problems and Struggles

Quotes on Relationship Problems

  • “Miscommunication is endless.” ―JP Rattie
  • “Assumptions are the termites of relationships.” ―Henry Winkler
  • “Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.” ―Wayne Dyer
  • “Disrespect is fatal to a relationship.” ―Jonathan Lockwood Huie
  • “Work on your relationships… Relationships need renewal or they die.”
  • “A shallow person will have only shallow relationships.” ―Daisaku Ikeda
  • “Love cannot live where there is no trust.” ―Edith Hamilton
  • “Never love anybody that treats you like you’re ordinary.” ―Oscar Wilde
  • “Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.” ―Mike Murdock
  • “I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.” ―Arthur Miller
  • “A lovers’ quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had.” ―Robert Brault
  • “Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.” ―Oprah Winfrey
  • “In general, the problem in a relationship is when the couple stagnate.” ―Simon Baker
  • “Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.” ―Leo F. Buscaglia
  • “Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.” ―Arthur Schopenhauer
  • “There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.” ―Cyril Connolly
  • “Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.” ―Barbara Johnson
  • “When you don’t talk, there’s a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.” ―Catherine Gilbert Murdock
  • “If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete.” ―Shannon L. Alder
  • “Hold no grudges and practice forgiveness. This is the key to having peace in all your relationships.” ―Wayne Dyer
  • “The best person to talk to about the problems in your relationship is the person you’re in a relationship with.” ―Unknown
  • “How can our relationship grow when you don’t respect my need to discuss everything that is wrong with you?” ―Michael Lipsey
  • “Secrets are festering parasites to a relationship, devouring their hosts from within, leaving behind a empty hollow husk of what once was.”
  • “For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle.” ―Robert Brault
  • “In a relationship, it is demeaning to constantly seek your partner’s approval. In such relationships, real caring, depth or even love is missing.” ―Daisaku Ikeda
  • “Every relationship has its own problems. But sometimes what makes it perfect is if you still wanna be together, when things go the wrong way.” ―Unknown
  • “When you’re in a relationship, you’re always surrounded by a ring of circumstances… joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.” ―Bob Seger
  • “Trouble is part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.” ―Dinah Shore

Quotes about Overcoming Relationship Problems

  • “If you’re having relationship problems, confess to God not Facebook.” ―Unknown
  • “Every relationship goes through a struggle, but only strong relationships get through it.” ―Unknown
  • “Let’s not forget it’s you and me vs. problem. Not you vs. me.” ―Unknown
  • “Sometimes I push you away because I need you to pull me closer.” ―Unknown
  • “Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.” ―Swedish Proverb
  • “A true relationship is two imperfect people refusing to let go of each other.” ―Unknown
  • “All relationships go through bad times, but real relationships get through bad times.” ―Anurag Prakash Ray
  • “There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.” ―Bryant H. McGill
  • “Forget all the reasons why it won’t work. And believe the one reason why it will.” ―Unknown
  • “The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.” ―Nicholas Sparks
  • “All relationships have problems. The strength of your relationship is defined by your ability to overcome them.” ―Unknown
  • “You can’t have a relationship without any fights but you can make your relationship worth the fight.” ―Unknown
  • “All relationships have one law. Never make the one you love feel alone, especially when you’re there.” ―Unknown
  • “Love is the remedy of all problems, misunderstandings become jokes, insults become humor, a perfect relationship.” ―Dielnov Muchati
  • “You have to work at relationships. You can’t just walk out on them every time something goes wrong.”
  • “Relationships include fights, jealousy, arguments, and tears. But a real relationship fights through all of those with love.” ―Unknown
  • “Problems in relationships occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.” ―Wayne Dyer
  • “I think a relationship is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward or it dies.” ―Woody Allen
  • “Nobody likes conflict, but sweeping issues under the rug ultimately cause more damage than addressing things directly” – Unknown
  • “Explain your anger, don’t express it and you will immediately open the door to solutions instead of arguments.” ―Unknown
  • “God can restore what is broken and change it to something amazing. All you need is faith.” ―Joel 2:25
  • “Every couple needs to argue now and then, just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive.”
  • “Hold no grudges and practice forgiveness. This is the key to having peace in all your relationships.” ―Dr. Wayne Dyer
  • ” Good communication is less about saying what you mean, and more about defining what you say.” ―Kelli Jae Baeli
  • “At the end of the day, you can either focus on what’s tearing you apart or what’s keeping you together.” ―Anonymous
  • “A strong relationship is choosing to love each other even in those moments when you struggle to like each other.” ―Unknown
  • “Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.” ―Socrates
  • “A beautiful relationship does not depend on how well we understand someone. But, It depends on how well we avoid misunderstanding.” ―Unknown
  • “Love isn’t when there are no fights in the relationship. Love is when once the fight ends, love is still there.” ―Unknown
  • “We don’t develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” ―Barbara de Angelis
  • “I can’t promise that in our relationship you won’t face any problems, but I surely can promise that you won’t face them alone!” ―Rose Hathway
  • “To solve the problem you have to recognize your share of responsibility. If you only blame the other person, you will never solve it.” ―Unknown
  • “Great couples still get angry with each other, but they continue to discuss until there is a solution even if it takes several days.” ―Bob Grant
  • “The couples that are meant to be, are the ones who go through everything that is meant to tear them apart and come out even stronger.” ―Unknown
  • “The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship.” ―Henry Cloud
  • “Problems should be like speed bumps. You slow down just to get over it, but you don’t let it stop you from heading to your destination.” ―Sonya Parker
  • “A relationship is like a house. When a light bulb burns out you do not go and buy a new house, you fix the light bulb.” ―Bernajoy Vaal
  • “Behind every happy couple lies two people who have fought hard to overcome all obstacles and interferences to be that way. Why? Because it’s what they wanted.” ―Kim George
  • ” “Trouble is part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.” ―Dinah Shore
  • ” In any serious relationship, if you don’t gather your partner’s opinion before making a decision that impacts you both, you’re just storing up trouble for the future.” ―Cindy Woodsmall
  • “Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.” ―Unknown
  • “There is no challenge strong enough to destroy your marriage as long as you are both willing to stop fighting against each other, and start fighting for each other.” ―Dave Willis
  • “Relationships last long not because they’re destined to last long. Relationships last long because two brave people made a choice. To keep it, fight for it and to work for it.” ―Unknown
  • “All couples have ups and downs but how you handle it is what defines true love. Arguments are simply a test to see if a couple is strong enough to overcome it.” ―Unknown
  • “Both people need to care deeply about the other person, to put the other’s needs before their own, and to make a daily commitment to that person to stick it out.” ―Alessandra Torre
  • “Every relationship needs an argument every now and then. Just to prove that it is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.” ―Melchor Lim
  • “Love is not how you forget but how you forgive. Not how you listen but how you understand. Not what you see but how you feel. And not how you let go but how you hold on.” ―Unknown
  • “We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.” ―Ellen Goodman
  • “You can’t just give up on someone just because the situation is not ideal. Great relationships aren’t great because they have no problems. They’re great because both people care about the other person to find a way to make it work.”
  • “Trials are but lessons that you failed to learn, presented once again. So, where you made a faulty choice before, you can now make a better one, and thus escape all pain that what you chose before has brought to you.” ―A Course In Miracles
  • “Whatever problems arise in a romantic relationship, it’s important to face them together as a couple. If an aspect of the relationship stops working, don’t simply ignore it, but instead address it with your partner. Things change, so respond to them together as they do.” ―Anne Nwakama
  • “When you find someone you can truly love, you will fight to keep that relationship. No matter what obstacles you both will face, you will never give up on each other. You may get lost along the way, but one of you always keeps catch the other. Soon one day both of you will have each other’s backs.” ―Jenna Bognar
  • “Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.” ―Anthony Robbins