Can emotional love be reborn? You bet! The key is to learn the primary love language of your spouse and choose to speak it.
A relationship calls for sympathetic listening with a view to understanding the other person’s thoughts, feelings, and desires.
The best thing we can do with the failures of the past is to let them be history.
In fact, true love cannot begin until the in-love experience has run its course.
I am amazed by how many individuals mess up every new day with yesterday. They insist on bringing into today the failures of yesterday and in so doing, they pollute a potentially wonderful day.
Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offense up against the offender. Forgiveness is an expression of love.
But if, once we return to the real world of human choice, we choose to be kind and generous, that is real love.
When I sit with my wife and give her twenty minutes of my undivided attention and she does the same for me, we are giving each other twenty minutes of life. We will never have those twenty minutes aga...
Sometimes loving means giving. — Carol Russell —
Psychologist William James said that possibly the deepest human need is the need to feel appreciated.
ليس الحب أن تحصل على ما تريد بل أن تفعل شيئا ذا أهمية لمن تحب، ورغم هذا فإننا عندما نتلقى كلمات تشجيعية ممن نحب فإن ذلك يخلق لدينا حالة من الاثارة والايجابية لتلبية رغبات الشريك.
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True Christianity does more than feel empathy for those in need. True Christianity meets that need. — James Stuart Bell —
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Our spouse will usually interpret our message based on our tone of voice, not the words we use.
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