“I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.”
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“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take. ”
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“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.”
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“When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.”
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“But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?”
― The Rosie Project
― The Rosie Project
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