Quotes About Emotional

The less obvious hurdle is that of preparing parents emotionally and putting forward realistic images of parenthood and motherhood. There also needs to be some sort of acknowledgement that not everyone should parent - when parenting is a given, it's not fully considered or thought out, and it gives way too easily to parental ambivalence and unhappiness.

Whining is a form of manipulation. People will give anything to make you shut up.

This holds true for the whole of a doctrine or of a theoretical system as well as for a single concept, like love, justice, equality, sacrifice. Each such concept and each doctrine has an emotional matrix and this matrix is rooted in the character structure of the individual.

A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snuffled out in roaring agony-and you feel nothing. That's the misery of the world.

but a sense of strangeness will not leave me. I cannot feel at home among these things. There is my mother, there is my sister, there my case of butterflies, and there the mahogony piano, but I am not myself there. There is a distance, a veil between us.

Here she joined the universal struggle shared by men and women throughout time, to temper rejection so as not to lose a friend forever.

I'm not brave any more darling. I'm all broken. They've broken me.

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

Even when you have learned not to look at families nor listen to them and have learned not to answer letters, families have many ways of being dangerous.

You did not have to like it because you understood it. He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care

I must hold his pain where it is, he thought. Mine does not matter. I can control mine. But his pain could drive him mad.

He had lost the capacity of personal suffering, or he thought he had, and could only be hurt truly by what happened to others.

It's your object to convey everything to the reader so that he remembers it not as a story he had read but something that happened to himself. That's the true test of writing..

Intimate betrayal feels intensely personal—a direct attack in the most vulnerable place. However, looking through the lens of the damage it caused the aggrieved partner, we see only one side of the story. Cheating is what they did to their partner, but what were they doing for themselves? And why?

When we channel all our intimate needs into one person, we actually stand to make the relationship more vulnerable.

We look to our partner as a bulwark against the vicissitudes of modern life. It is not that our human insecurity is greater today than in earlier times. In fact, quite the contrary may be true. What is different is that modern life has deprived us of our traditional resources, and has created a situation in which we turn to one person for the protection and emotional connections that a multitude of social networks used to provide.

Marriage has become a mythical castle, designed to be everything we could want. Affairs bring it tumbling down, leaving us feeling like there is nothing to hold on to. Perhaps this goes some way toward explaining why modern infidelity is more than painful. It is traumatic.

infidelity is not just a loss of love; it is a loss of self.

What draws people outside the lines they worked so hard to establish? Why does sexual betrayal hurt so much? Is an affair always selfish and weak, or can it in some cases be understandable, acceptable, even an act of boldness and courage?

The emotional resonance between his relationship with his parents and his relationship with his wife is so strong that it leads to an unfortunate cross-wiring. Hence, the feeling that sex is "wrong," almost incestuous. When a partner starts to feel too familial, sex will inevitably be the casualty. Ironic as it may seem, at that moment the taboo of infidelity feels less transgressive than sex at home.

The extent to which our childhood relationships nurture or obstruct both sets of needs will determine the vulnerabilities that we bring into our adult relationships

Only when the betrayed partner feels emotionally met will he or she be able to listen to explanations without hearing them as justifications.

What is different is that modern life has deprived us of our traditional resources, and has created a situation in which we turn to one person for the protection and emotional connections that a multitude of social networks used to provide. Adult intimacy has become overburdened with expectations.

We explore their erotic templates, how their emotional history expresses itself in the physicality of sex. "Tell me how you were loved and I will know a lot about how you make love" is one of my guiding questions. Unearthing these issues helps to release the sexual blocks.