Quotes About Interdependence

Interdependence is a healthy, reciprocal relationship in which parties are mutually influenced by, supported by, and helped by one another. They are interconnected. They trust and rely on each other's unique contribution. That's what God intended for the male-female relationship.

It's important to note that interdependence differs from what is sometimes called "codependence"—that is, an unhealthy relationship in which an individual's sense of identity and worth is wrapped up in the other person.

There's such a fine line between maintaining independence and knowing when you aren't independent anymore.

Lovers should be as Fire and Air; fire must have air to breath and air gets it's true power from fire's heat .

We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly while embracing each other.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone

We all mold one another's dreams. We all hold each other's fragile hopes in our hands. We all touch others' hearts.

When the satisfaction or security of another person becomes as important to one as one's own, then a state of love exists.

An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way, can we truly function within a realtionship. Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it take two wholes.

A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.

Love creates an us without destroying a me.

What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people.

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

In love, the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

Marriage functions best when both partners remain somewhat unmarried.

In a good marriage each is the others better half.

This is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible beings who do not run away from life

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes in between them.

After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.