In modern times, if you're on an airplane and it's going down, that's it. You've got a couple of minutes, if that, to work out where you stand in relationship to the whole of your life.
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There's a lot less time in the day when you're in a relationship.
It's finding time for each other. That's the trick to any relationship, you know. Finding time to really be present for each other.
I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.
The longer I go about living, I see it's the relationship that is most meaningful.
My life takes me all over the world, and I know how hard that can be on a relationship.
Every relationship I've been in becomes long-distance because of work. It's never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult.
For twenty years, not a week went by when I wasn't on a plane.
It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out.
I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.
One of the more difficult things is the time. Either you are going 100 miles an hour, or you are sleeping. There is nothing in between.
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