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“She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He swore that it wouldn't and she believed him. But it only got worse after that, like when his dinner was cold, or when she mentioned that she'd visited with one of the neighbors who was walking by with his dog. She just chatted with him, but that night, her husband threw her into a mirror.”
― Safe Haven
― Safe Haven
“It takes two to have a fight.”
― Extraordinary Relationships: A New Way of Thinking About Human Interactions
― Extraordinary Relationships: A New Way of Thinking About Human Interactions
“if you wait for everyone else to do the right thing before you do the right thing, then you'll never do what's right. You have to do what's right even if other people aren't. Maybe even especially if other people aren't.”
― Shutout
― Shutout
“Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.”
― Local Girls
― Local Girls
“For the first time in history, middle-class women do not need men in the traditional ways - for safety, for money, for a life. So they’re demanding instead what they always wanted but couldn’t ask for: emotional connection, presence, intimacy. Sex with enough foreplay, enough seduction, enough closeness to please them. Men are baffled not only because the needs they are being asked to fill differ so from what their fathers and grandfathers understood to be their jobs but also because full-fledged intimacy requires strengths and skills they’ve never learned. Moreover… they’re strengths and skills that were once left solely to women: Men didn’t have to develop them. This maturational mismatch may be contributing to distrust among lovers of all ages.”
― Drama Kings: The Men Who Drive Strong Women Crazy
― Drama Kings: The Men Who Drive Strong Women Crazy
Renata’s 2025 Year in Books
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