What is the best relationship advice/book you've ever received? (boyfriends, men)

[Unruly Sky]

to continue being the person you were before and after the relationship.

[miyu]

Originally Posted by Peacelilies

I've heard about this book. Is it really that good? Dr. Laura inspires mixed feelings in me. Some good and some not so good.

I dunno if I'd take advice from somebody who had extramarital affairs, divorced, and couldn't deal with her own shortcomings. Plus she is so rigid in her social conservatism that you gotta wonder if it is some sort of compensatory mechanism for her own personal failures.

[dnvrsoul]

I've had a couple-"you have to get out of bed sometime." No one should ever have to convince someone else to love you-you want someone you don't need someone.
If someone was perfect-why would you ever think he/she would be with you?

[hatgirl007]

Learn to love those who love you. - That's the advice I take and give to others.

[Prince_Frog]

I haven't had any relationship advice. Only what bits of knowledge I've taken from previous relationships.

I know that women get crazy once a month

Don't date Psycho b*tches. These 2 do not go together.

[Iamthere]

this quote.....a tall woman is a promise seldom kept. Also, never trust a woman with thin lips....

[ans57]

Originally Posted by fleetiebelle

My dad always told us, "don't listen to what he says, watch what he does." And it's been true, if someone says he's going to do something, or that something is important to him but his actions don't back that up, it's a red flag.

Your dad is a man of substance!

[Peacelilies]

Originally Posted by Iamthere

this quote.....a tall woman is a promise seldom kept. Also, never trust a woman with thin lips....

Hmmh, I don't understand this. I am quite tall... what does this mean?

[Thursday007]

Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Robert Fulgham's first two books. "Everything I Needed to Know I learned in Kindergaten" and 'It was on Fire When I Lay down on it."

[wordlife]

My old man had always (and still says to this day) "Don't take women seriously, don't try to figure them either..who cares."

Once I fully internalized that, it was like the goose laying a golden egg.

another thing he always told me since I was a little guy "Mama's baby, Daddy's maybe"

I swear I can picture him now smoking a cigarette and telling me that.