Amy Dickinson

Being alone is almost always preferable to being with the wrong person.

— Amy Dickinson

If you've got a good book with you, you're never bored (or alone).

— Amy Dickinson

We are not our best intentions. We are what we do.

— Amy Dickinson

One person gets to decide if something is a problem in a relationship.

— Amy Dickinson

There is true freedom in letting go.

— Amy Dickinson

If people thought more, we'd all have less to amuse us.

— Amy Dickinson

Unsolicited advice is always self-serving.

— Amy Dickinson

You need to start behaving like the person you want to attract.

— Amy Dickinson

Mature people must find their own ways to cope with their own temptations.

— Amy Dickinson

One of the privileges of adulthood is that your parents don't get to tell you what to do.

— Amy Dickinson

When you're a single parent, you're often lonely, yet seldom alone. There is no backup ... It is mothering without a net.

— Amy Dickinson

One of the benefits of being divorced is that you no longer need to listen to your ex's assessment of the appropriateness…

— Amy Dickinson

Marriage is an intimate relationship between two people. It is a bad idea to involve a third party.

— Amy Dickinson

Boredom has an important function, because pushing through it can unleash creativity.

— Amy Dickinson

People who are combative in one relationship tend to be combative in other relationships.

— Amy Dickinson

Ask 10 people about their family relationships and at least five of them will report an estrangement.

— Amy Dickinson

In the name of friendship you should make sure your door is always open to listen. Don't feel you need to provide…

— Amy Dickinson

In life, you don't get instant satisfaction. In life, you get to slog. You work. You grow. You take the long view.…

— Amy Dickinson

This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as…

— Amy Dickinson

One downside of being an optimist is that optimistic people tend to forget yesterday's trauma in the belief that everything will turn…

— Amy Dickinson

Sometimes toxic people are so resistant to change that therapy does not really help them - but they send everybody else into…

— Amy Dickinson

Your job in life is to look after yourself and to find ways to get what you need - emotionally and otherwise…

— Amy Dickinson

We human beings are definitely capable of loving more than one person, but it seems to go more smoothly if we don't…

— Amy Dickinson

You should not be hovering in the background, inflating the drama. Simply envelop him in love and affection and let him know…

— Amy Dickinson

“We abide. To abide means to stand with someone, to suffer alongside someone. But it also means to live somewhere, and for…

— Amy Dickinson

Not every relationship can be altered to fit.

— Amy Dickinson

"Nags" nag because they feel they aren't being heard.

— Amy Dickinson

Needy and boring parents tend to have needy and bored children.

— Amy Dickinson

Perspective is the enemy of long-lost love.

— Amy Dickinson

People don't change when they don't acknowledge their actions.

— Amy Dickinson

The fullness of life is incubated in its messy places.

— Amy Dickinson

A threat is a promise followed by a consequence.

— Amy Dickinson

Have you ever noticed how bored people are also boring?

— Amy Dickinson

Life is easier when you are comfortable in your own skin.

— Amy Dickinson

"Don't be stupid!" is excellent advice.

— Amy Dickinson

Life is weird. And guess what makes it weird? People.

— Amy Dickinson

He sounds like someone who might best be loved from a distance.

— Amy Dickinson

All promises are empty - until they are fulfilled.

— Amy Dickinson

Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology.

— Amy Dickinson

Bullies often act out by marshaling aggression to cover up for insecurity.

— Amy Dickinson