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	Power of the Middle Ground: A Couple's Guide to Renewing Your Relationship 3.60 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Psychoanalytic Sex Therapy: Exploring the Unconscious Life of Sexuality

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“Anger is caused by frustrated desires to locate a sense of security.”
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“Making regular contributions to a reservoir of trust is the foundation of a relationship.”
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“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
― John A. Shedd

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the man you married?
Touch me,
remind me who I am.”
― Stanley Kunitz

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“What makes the engine go?
Desire, desire, desire.”
― Stanley Kunitz

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“When you look back on a lifetime and think of what has been given to the world by your presence, your fugitive presence, inevitably you think of your art, whatever it may be, as the gift you have made to the world in acknowledgment of the gift you have been given, which is the life itself... That work is not an expression of the desire for praise or recognition, or prizes, but the deepest manifestation of your gratitiude for the gift of life.”
― Stanley Kunitz

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“Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.”
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