Quotes About Interpersonal

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.

when we consider the Four Tendencies, we're better able to understand other people.

the marriage expert John Gottman calls the "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" for their destructive role in relationships: stonewalling, defensiveness, criticism, and contempt. Well

YOU HAVE TO FIND THE RIGHT DISTANCE BETWEEN PEOPLE. TOO CLOSE, AND THEY OVERWHELM YOU, TOO FAR AND THEY ABANDON YOU.

Find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you.

I am definitely a person who firmly believes in the human touch and in the importance of people.

I write about people in small towns; I don't write about people living in big cities. My kind of storytelling depends upon people that have time to talk to each other.

Truth is not born nor is it to be found inside the head of an individual person, it is born between people collectively searching for truth, in the process of their dialogic interaction

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

When people turn other people into selfobjects, they are trying to turn a person into a kind of spare part.

we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things. I

Now, relational artifacts pose these questions directly.

We now expect more from technology and less from each other.

The ties we form through the Internet are not, in the end, the ties that bind. But they are the ties that preoccupy.

Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is the risk that we come to see others as objects to be accessed— and only for the parts we find useful, comforting, or amusing.

There was something, a driving destructive thing in life, in all relationships between people.

I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful.

I love bringing people together. I think that the environment is so important in terms of what kind of relationships you might be able to create, how people get to know each other.

Whatever people I take into my life I take in because they challenge me and I challenge them at the deepest level. Such relationships are rarely serene, but they are nourishing.

an emotional, psychological, and behavioral condition that develops as a result of an individual's prolonged exposure to, and practice of, a set of oppressive rules—rules which prevent the open expression of feeling as well as the direct discussion of personal and interpersonal problems."2

wrote codependency is "an emotional, psychological, and behavioral condition that develops as a result of an individual's prolonged exposure to, and practice of, a set of oppressive rules—rules which prevent the open expression of feeling as well as the direct discussion of personal and interpersonal problems."2

Robert Subby wrote codependency is "an emotional, psychological, and behavioral condition that develops as a result of an individual's prolonged exposure to, and practice of, a set of oppressive rules—rules which prevent the open expression of feeling as well as the direct discussion of personal and interpersonal problems.