Quotes About Interpersonal

In an article from the book Co-Dependency, An Emerging Issue, Robert Subby writes that 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.

Rescuing or caretaking is not an act of love. The Drama Triangle is a hate triangle. It fosters and maintains self-hate, and it hinders our feelings for other people.

It would seem that, through touch, through kissing, we might have gouged a worm-size channel through which crucial information could pass, sublingual messages, the kind of pre-verbal intimacy that should flow with thunderous force between the bodies of people so bonded. We should have been able to bypass a mere inability to exchange language.

More than once she'd felt as though they were talking at each other rather than to each other.

Most of us have jobs that require some handling of other peoples' feelings and our own, and in that sense, we are all partly flight attendants.

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

Certainly, people can get along without siblings. Single children do, and there are people who have irreparably estranged relationships with their siblings who live full and satisfying lives, but to have siblings and not make the most of that resource is squandering one of the greatest interpersonal resources you'll ever have.

Conversations are an essential part of our daily lives. One cannot imagine life without talking or hearing. But somewhere between the hearing and saying part lies the beautiful silence.

Indeed, says psychologist Dan Stern of the University of Geneva, the brain is so relational that our nervous system is actually "constructed to be captured by the nervous systems of others, so that we can experience others as if from within their skin, as well as from within our own.

In a group of studies Mikulincer showed that when we feel safely connected to others we understand ourselves better and like ourselves more.

But it's not just whether or not we have close relationships in our lives—the quality of these relationships matters, too. Negative relationships undermine our health.

Yes, the conversation is the relationship. One conversation at a time, you are building, destroying, or flatlining your relationships.

Someone in Dr. Morse's childhood must've told him that the polite thing to do to get by in the world (in his world) was to memorize one fact and one fact only about each of your colleague's family members, so that when you met that colleague, or met their family members, you could, by mentioning this fact, appear solicitous and engaged.

El noventa por ciento del trabajo es estar junto a quien tienes que estar. El otro diez por ciento, se improvisa sobre la marcha.

School is more than ABCs and 123s. It's the beginning of developing how to interact in a social setting.

Using the existence of a marriage license to determine when the state should protect interpersonal relationships is increasingly impractical.

Dominant and emerging forms of interpersonal communication have to find their way into literary language somehow - think of the epistolary novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Honey, don't ever try to figure out what's going on between two people.

No matter how smart you are, if you don't know how to work with people, your dreams will just be dreams.

we call this permanent domain of concern "sociability.

SOCIAL ANIMAL ALWAYS COME ACROSS SEVERAL COMPLICATIONS

Person A understand Person B because the time is right for that to happen, not because Person B wants to be understood by Person A.

While loosening formal controls, companies should tighten interpersonal connections between innovation efforts and the rest of the business.

Clearly in textbook terms, the gentleman should text the lady first after intercourse, but perhaps the whole socio-etiquettical system breaks down when an insect plague is involved.