Quotes About Relationships

She discovered that being 'ordinary' wasn't a terrible failure but rather a centering human experience. Perhaps our courage to embrace our ordinariness (along with our uniqueness) is one of the true keys to happiness in our relationships - including the relationship with our own self.

working on key emotional issues at their source, lays the groundwork for more solid intimate relationships in the present or future.

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If we do not know about our own family history, we are more likely to repeat past patterns or mindlessly rebel against them, without much clarity about who we really are, how we are similar to and different from other family members, and how we might best proceed in our own life.

Duygusal olgunluÄŸun en önemli dönüm noktalar?ndan birisi çoÄŸul gerçeÄŸin geçerliliÄŸini fark etmek ve insanlar?n farkl? düÅŸünüp, farkl? hissedip, farkl? tepki verdiklerini anlamakt?r.

My father chose to have relationships at the expense of having a self, a pattern that began long before he met and married Rose.

But fibbing, including "polite" or social lies, can become part of the daily fabric of living—a way of avoiding conflict and complication that becomes so habitual we fail to notice even the fact of it and its imperceptible erosion of our integrity and our relationships.

We can operate from a solid position of self, even when the other person won't speak to us at all.

Women, however, have long been discouraged from the awareness and forthright expression of anger. Sugar and spice are the ingredients from which we are made. We are the nurturers, the soothers, the peacemakers, and the steadiers of rocked boats. It is our job to please, protect, and placate the world. We may hold relationships in place as if our lives depended on it.

When we talk about a person being a problem, rather than directly to the person, we add to the underground anxiety and make it harder for the talked-about person to behave with confidence and competence.

We can learn to sit more comfortably with our confusion. We can operate from a solid position of self, even when the other person won't speak to us at all.

how we may be too responsible for another person and, at the same time, not responsible enough for our own behavior.

tr?irile emoÈ›ionale intense, indiferent cât ar fi de p?trunz?toare, nu È›in locul unei apropieri reale, care rezist? în timp. Intensitatea si intimitatea nu sunt acelaÈ™i lucru, chiar dac? mulÈ›i oameni le confund?.

Our challenge as adults is to develop a strong voice that is uniquely our own, a voice that reflects our deepest values and convictions. Once we are comfortable within that voice, we can bring it to our most important relationships.

EÄŸer öfkemizi, giriÅŸtiÄŸimiz tüm önemli iliÅŸkilerde kendimizi aç?kça tan?mlamak için kullanmaz -ve duygular?m?zla olduklar? gibi baÅŸa ç?kmazsak- bu sorumluluÄŸu bizim yerimize üstlenecek baÅŸka birisi olmayacakt?r.

Our family of origin—the source of our first blueprint for navigating relationships.

Our first family: where we learned (not) to speak.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Usually we hate things or people with which we have some emotional involvement.

I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.

Acquaintances give us moments; friends give us hours; good friends give us days.

If you want to win her hand, Let the maiden understand That she's not the only pebble on the beach.

You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be with you, want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what you're giving to them.

The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.