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10 Powerful Quotes I Tell My Children About Relationships

A Mother’s view on love and self-love

I tell my children, “Use the best of me and lose the rest of me.”

I’ve spent more than a decade in the counseling, research, and writing of love and relationships. I want my children to have happy and healthy relationships. I want them to learn from the mistakes I’ve made.

It’s what we do as mothers. We teach our kids that when we fall down, we pick ourselves up, we learn, and we become better.

I used to believe my children would learn from perfection.

Until I realized it was an impossible goal for a mother to reach. I couldn’t make sure my children grew up perfectly but I could ensure they grew up beautifully.

Relationships aren’t precise. They are human. They won’t be perfect.

But some can be healthier than others.

As a mother, I want to impart a few concise and meaningful words that may improve my children’s chances of happier and healthier relationships. The type of wisdom that may easily be remembered.

Quotes have a way of sticking with us and following us. They can be hard to forget. They can guide us and our children.

10 Powerful Things I Tell My Children About Relationships

1. “Popularity is not a goal. It’s a by-product of treating every human being the same…With kindness and respect.”

— Colleen Sheehy Orme

2. “Respectful people see you for who you truly are. Disrespectful people make you feel bad about who you are.”

— Colleen Sheehy Orme

3. “When you have to ask someone to care about you, they’re already telling you they don’t.”

— Colleen Sheehy Orme

4. “Never let someone repeatedly hurt you. It gets more difficult to count after the first one or two times.”

— Colleen Sheehy Orme

5. “Be careful of people who talk you out of being you.”

— Colleen Sheehy Orm

6. “Love requires that you sacrifice some of yourself. Don’t ever mistake that for all of yourself.”

— Colleen Sheehy Orme

7. “There is a calm in respectful relationships and chaos in disrespectful ones.”

— Colleen Sheehy Orme

8. “Confidence means you will never need to make another person feel bad to make yourself feel good. Walk away from anyone who lacks the confidence to do the same.”

— Colleen Sheehy Orme

9. “People are more important than money. Love is more important than being right. Compromise is more important than being in control. Love should rise above it all.”

— Colleen Sheehy Orme

10. “Know your value, if not, others may lie about it.”

— Colleen Sheehy Orme

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