Maybe your dad is living a double life. Maybe your mom is. Maybe one of them is secretly gay or cross-dressing or having an affair or paying for hookers or going to strip clubs or watching Internet porn or just not in love. Maybe both are.
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“Lying is about controlling someone else’s reality, hoping that what they don’t know won’t hurt you.”
― The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book about Relationships
― The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book about Relationships
“In this life, we don't meet many people who truly love us, who accept us for who we are, who put us before themselves.”
― The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships
― The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships
“Perhaps the people who hurt you the most when they leave are the ones you shouldn’t have been with anyway, because they do it without compassion.”
― The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book about Relationships
― The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book about Relationships
“To survive painful beliefs and feelings, we often mask them with anger. That way, we don’t have to feel the shame behind it.”
― The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book about Relationships
― The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book about Relationships
“I used to think that a good relationship meant always getting along. But the secret, I realize, is that when one person shuts down or throws a fit, the other needs to stay in the adult ego state. If both people descend to the wounded child or adapted adolescent, that's when all forces of relationship drama and destruction are unleashed.”
― The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships
― The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships
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