Being single is definitely better than being with the wrong person
If you're right & I'm not, I'm going to be hell to live with, she said. So, you better think about that next time you want to be right.
It's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they're romantic relationships, friendships, encounters... there's always a les...
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
What? Did we end up hating each other? Did we end up the way we thought we always knew would? Did I end up wearing khakis because of that fucking ad?
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
They can talk shit about each other behind the others' backs, but when it comes down to it, money is the one true race and everyone down here is the color of greenbacks and as tall as mountains.
She was her own Enigma Code and me and my dad were not Bletchley Park.
Okay, then, what was he like? Just give me something to go on so that I have a shot at him!''A shot at him? Are you on an elk hunt?
Love is an exercise in selective perception
It's not so easy.What isn't?To establish relationships, you can't just elect people, it can't be done by thinking and willing.
If you allow disagreements and arguments to escalate, you are making the bone of contention of whatever you are heatedly arguing about more important than your relationship.
Her life would have been easier if she hadn't loved him so much, but she couldn't help loving him. Just to look at him was to love him.
He hadn't wooed her, but had simply claimed her. A gold mine ready to dig. There should have been a period of quiet dinners together, of flowers rather than diamonds, of kisses given after permission...
Do you believe in chaos- in random, uncontrolled events, in the idea that anything can happen at any time without fixed laws governing it? If you believe that, you will always be in a state of fear, n...
Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the two persons engaged in dialogue, (2) the relations...
Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don't understand each other. Not at all! But that's what makes relationships so amazing.
Forget the adage Win/Win and make a commitment to Learn/Learn. Win/Win is good, but implies an end. Once you win, then what? Learn/Learn creates a paradigm of ongoing value. This creates a Learn/Learn...
Boundary violations are deeply experienced.