Laura Kightlinger

Certain guys tell me they want women of substance, not beautiful models. It just means they can’t get beautiful models.

I’m currently single, so I want to have fun! As for what guys need to do to date out of their league, it’s all about the swagger. If you have confidence, you can get pretty much any girl.

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you’re not going to get anywhere.

I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn’t sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.

[a metaphor for the end of her marriage] The process of divorce is about loading a blanket, throwing it up, watching it all spin, and worrying what stuff will break when it lands.

It’s great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won’t; it’s up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Relationships are truly like a garden, if you tend it, water it, weed it and feed it, it will grow into a beautiful garden. If you only go out there every few weeks to look it over for a few moments, what do you think it’s going to look like in a few months? It’s going to be a weed patch. It will disappear.

There has never been a merging of two lives where significant problems of daily living did not occur. One way or another, your relationship is going to be affected. The only question is how. There’s a big difference between knowing and doing. It’s not what happens between partners that determines the outcome of a relationship, it’s how they handle what happens. If all you deal with in your relationship is problems, then you will have a problem relationship. If you want your pound of flesh with full acknowledgement that you’re right, your future will be dim.

Good sex is like good bridge. If you don’t have a good partner, you’d better have a good hand.

I’ve always said, ‘If you need Viagra, you’re probably with the wrong girl.

It’s fun to have a partner who understands your life and lets you be you.

Dear Ladies: You should never need to prove to other women that he’s in love with you. That’s his job.

It’s hard for a man to live with a successful woman – they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.