Quotes About Bonding

I've decided we're going to be great friends, by the way. Don't bother trying to resist me. I'll stalk you until you submit.

But then he reminded himself: They are not only my friends. They are my colleagues. He had turned them into his colleagues, and in a strange way, that was comforting to Sam. Ichigo bonded them to him for life.

A.J. kisses his daughter on the forehead. He is delighted to have produced such a fantastic nerd.

she made me laugh like I hadn't laughed in a long time. We were like puppies playing together on the beach. I thought,

Em and I don't giggle but we sort of snort, so we snorted.

Then he laughed, his typical laugh. Making me wish i had ten more such anectodes stashed away to keep him standing there, holding onto me and laughing.

I would see a little Torquatus, stretching his baby hands from his mother's lap, smile a sweet smile at his father with lips half parted.

We have a baby now at my house, all day long. And all night long. I wonder why they say you have a baby? The baby has you.

All this was built on the firm foundation of primate bonding patterns. If the pattern broke down at the bottom, it gave a rabble. Loss of scale at the top led to dictators, who always fell in the long run. Democracy emerged and worked because it let people form groups they could actually manage and like. The

It's hard to figure out how a friendship begins, she thought. Maybe sometimes it's because someone you thought you knew - and that you didn't really - turns out to be a whole lot more like a friend than you ever guessed.

And Meryl Lee thought, I wonder how this happens. You live side by side for a while, and suddenly you realize you like living side by side, and you can't imagine not living side by side because you've become friends. And then your friends become friends with one another, and they sit beside one another and cry. How does that happen? But isn't it good that it does?

Done well, marital sexuality can be a supremely healing experience.

Families start to break down—and marriages often break down, for that matter—when we stop enjoying each other.

BECOMING ONE — IN THE DEEPEST, MOST INTIMATE SENSE — TAKES TIME. IT TAKES AT LEAST THE SPAN OF A DECADE FOR THE SENSE OF INTIMACY TO REALLY DISPLAY ITSELF IN THE MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP.

Make 'Em Laugh! Humor is a vastly underrated tool for relationship and trust-building.

we can choose how we will participate in relationships, we have no choice about whether we will participate in them.

Usually, they have to attach a tentacle to someone else before detaching all the tentacles from their current object.

There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.

I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships.

My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.

Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship.

What happened to you as an infant has a profound impact on this capacity to love and be loved.

When the attentive and responsive adult comes to the crying infant, two very important things happen. The baby feels the pleasure of being regulated after being distressed—and also experiences the sight, smell, touch, sound, and movement of human interaction.

when you are an attentive, attuned, and responsive caregiver to these little ones, you're literally weaving together this powerful three-part association—you're building a healthy root system for the Tree of Regulation. Furthermore, as we talked about earlier, these bonding experiences create the infant's worldview about humans. A consistent, nurturing caregiver builds an internal view that people are safe, predictable, and caring. Oprah: