Quotes About Mutuality

Partnerships should be equal. You can protect her, yes, but shouldn't she also be able to protect you?

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Love is an attempt to penetrate another being, but it can only be realized if the surrender is mutual.

Where's the give and take there? That's not a marriage. That's a male version of heaven.

Don't get me wrong. I'm happy to be your morning lollipop, but I need to eat, too.

She needs me. And I need her.

Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.

Citizenship is a way of being in the world rooted in the knowledge that I am a member of a vast community of human and nonhuman beings that I depend on for essentials I could never provide for myself.

get you. You get me. No take-backs.

One way to identify a relationship of inequality is to determine whether or not the couple can set mutual goals and discuss them together. In an abusive relationship, the couple does not really plan together. Planning together requires mutuality and equality.

there are no separate lives; each life and individual character exists in relation to every other life: dead, living, yet to live.

If you're giving love and not receiving it, you're not in the right relationship. If you're receiving it and not giving it than you are taking advantage of the other person.

Real love...is when you get as much pleasure from giving pleasure as you do from receiving it.

Onszelf leren kennen als deel van een groter geheel, samen met anderen, zal borg staan voor een betere zelfzorg die niet los gezien kan worden van zorg voor de ander. Wellicht komt er dan ook meer ruimte voor intimiteit.

People belong to each other only as long as they both believe.

The way we're happening to each other?

A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it."7

Love is, to be loved," said Alexander, "in return.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each otherís faith.

The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.