Love is not enough! There has to be trust and respect and kindness and admiration and appreciation and gratitude and sweetness of speech and emotional intimacy as well as physical intimacy. Not just sometimes. Always.
#Female types and #male types, whichever one you #identify with as being, #think, and solve #problems, very differently, still like our #ancient #ancestors! Back then, males were the #hunters, did that #alone, focused on #action, saying nothing until the problem is solved. Females were the gatherers, caretakers, did that in
One of the things I have #learned in my #work is that it takes about 10 times more #energy to #suppress your #emotional #hurt, than it does to #express it, to #cry. All of us have only so much energy to use every #day. If we are spending a tremendous
Now. The only time that I was ever deeply in #love, it was #now. The only time I ever had fantastic #fun, it was now. The only #time that I ever truly had my #power, it was now. The only time that I ever really #laughed my ass off,
We all make #assumptions. Most of us know on some level that’s not a good idea! And, in #relationships we tend to #assume the #worst!! Because of our #insecurity and #fear, we make things up to be upset about. Since we make assumptions anyway, if you want a #happy
A #happy #relationship requires focus on #giving, instead of #getting. My recent focus was, “what if you devastate me?”, and I pulled back. She’s #uncertain, so I closed my #heart for #protection. That #hurt her deeply. Then I realized #closing my heart for protection is all about what I