Do not decide that someone is good until you see how he or she acts at home

I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?

Examine the contents, not the bottle

People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that’s not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner’s faults honestly and say, ‘I can work around that. I can make something out of it.’? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it’s always going to pretty and sparkly, but the crap underneath can ruin you.

When a man tells you who he is...believe him.

A person who seeks help for a friend, while needy himself, will be answered first