Weakness
When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.
― Deepak Chopra
Assumptions
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
― Henry Winkler
Reveal
I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.
― Steve Maraboli
Fully Seen
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
― Elizabeth Gilbert
Expecting Perfect
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
― Donald Miller
Relationships Mantra
When I choose to create a balanced relationship with myself,
I experience peace.
~Ann Ruane
Jealousy Q&Q
Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.
― Anne Lamott
Have and Want
A lot of people get so hung up on what they can’t have that they don’t think for a second about whether they really want it.
― Lionel Shriver
Changed Heart
Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others– it only changes yours.
― Shannon Alder
Reflection
What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?
― Michael Connelly