Transactional Relationships Quotes

“Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.”
― Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness

“Janet Malcolm had famously described journalism as the art of seduction and betrayal. Any reporter who didn't see journalism as "morally indefensible" was either "too stupid" or "too full of himself," she wrote. I disagreed. Without shutting the door on the possibility that I was both stupid and full of myself, I'd never bought into the seduction and betrayal conceit. At most, journalism - particularly when writing about media-hungry public figures - was like the seduction of a prostitute. The relationship was transactional. They weren't talking to me because they liked me or because I impressed them; they were talking to me because they wanted the cover of Rolling Stone.”
― michael hastings, The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan

“Let's accept it that we remember people only when we have some work and only our Mother‬ remembers us and calls us for no reason, just to know how we are doing!”
― honeya

“When you are not needed, you are not needed. Period!”
― honeya

“Let's accept it that we remember people only when we need something from them and only our Mother remembers us and calls us for no reason, just to know how we are doing!

Miss you Aai!”
― honeya

“Relationships are often transactional, except of course we want to wallow in self-deception.”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts