Quotes About Vulnerability

I want to tell you what's really happened. Not now. Please not now. Whatever's happened, come and make love to me. And we did make love; not sex, but love; though sex would have been so much wiser.

When she went out she used to wear a lot of eye shadow, which married with the sulky way she sometimes held her mouth to give her a characteristic bruised look; a look that subtly made one want to bruise her more.

Man is an everlack, an infinite withoutness, afloat on an apparently endless ocean of apparently endless indifference to individual things. Obscurely he sees catastrophes happening to other rafts, rafts that are too distant for him to determine whether they have other humans aboard, but too numerous and too identical for him to presume that they have not.

The feeling that he would probably betray me. And I've always thought of marriage as a sort of young adventure, two people of the same age setting out together, discovering together, growing together. But I would have nothing to tell him, nothing to show him. All the helping would be on his side.

If you feel something deeply, you're not ashamed to show your feeling.

Sex is just an activity, like anything else. It's not dirty, it's just two people playing with each other's bodies. Like dancing. Like a game.

Hemos estado completamente desnudos uno frente al otro... ¡No podemos estar más separados, sin embargo! Pero lo estamos

I am weak. But ashamed of your weakness. What good could my strength bring to the world?

Puterea femeii! Nu m-am simÈ›it niciodat? atât de plin? de puteri misterioase. B?rbaÈ›ii sunt doar o glum?. Suntem atât de pl?pânde fizic, atât de neajutorate în faÈ›a realit??ii. Chiar È™i în ziua de azi. Dar suntem mai puternice decât ei. Noi putem îndura cruzimea lor. Ei n-o pot îndura pe a noastr?.

She felt the speed of her fall accelerate. When the cruel ground rushes up, when the fall is from such a height, what use are precautions?

That "small" emotion, love, grows amazingly when threatened with extinction.

For he himself had experienced to the full the gnawing fear at the bottom of each woman's heart that she is a drag on the man she loves.

A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much

Too much intimacy, too quickly, can cause women to become needy and men to pull away. Just as men have a tendency to rush into physical intimacy, women make the mistake of rushing into complete emotional intimacy.

The closer we are to someone, the easier it is to bruise or be bruised.

To receive support we not only have to teach our partners what we need but we also have to be willing to be supported.

The more intimate we are with someone, the more difficult it is objectively to hear their point of view without reacting to their negative feelings. To protect ourselves from feeling worthy of their disrespect or disapproval automatic defenses come up to resist their point of view. Even if we agree with their point of view, we may stubbornly persist in arguing with them.

Rejection, judgment, and abandonment are most painful because deep inside her unconscious she holds the incorrect belief that she is unworthy of receiving more.

Asking for help when you can do it yourself is perceived as a sign of weakness.

love. If a stranger rejects you, it has little effect, but when someone you care about rejects you, it can be so painful that, to protect ourselves, we withdraw and close our hearts as we automatically put up walls and defenses.

The greatest emotional pain we can experience in life occurs when we stop sharing our love with the people we love the most.

Male Stress Symptoms The steady production of testosterone is linked to a man's well-being. When a man is confronted with external stressors, eventually his testosterone levels become depleted. They become even more depleted when different aspects of his male side become overshadowed by overexpressed characteristics of his female side. When his testosterone is low or his estrogen is too high, he is more vulnerable to a wide range of male stress symptoms.

the Germans, complacently sure it was uncrackable, were careless in its use.

the jury that conniving her way into wills handwritten by her old and vulnerable bosses was a devious pattern.