"In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up"
About this Quote
The specific intent reads as corrective. Swift’s catalog is crowded with relationships that run on imbalance: the older guy with the leverage, the cool-kid dynamic, the partner who makes her smaller so he can feel bigger. By insisting on “each person,” she shuts down the romantic myth that one person should carry the emotional labor while the other coasts on being adored. The symmetry is the message. It’s also a subtle boundary: if you’re not actively helping your partner rise, you’re not neutral, you’re dragging.
The subtext is self-defense in a culture that treats women’s ambition as a relationship problem. “Lift each other up” doubles as permission to succeed without apologizing for it, a soft rebuttal to the idea that a boyfriend’s comfort should set the ceiling on her career, body, or voice. Coming from Swift, this isn’t Hallmark; it’s reputation management with teeth. She’s rewriting what “good girlfriend” means: not smaller, not quieter, not endlessly accommodating, but mutually fortified.
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| Topic | Relationship |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Swift, Taylor. (2026, January 18). In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-a-relationship-each-person-should-support-the-10090/
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Swift, Taylor. "In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-a-relationship-each-person-should-support-the-10090/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-a-relationship-each-person-should-support-the-10090/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.








