Relationship Q&Q
The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.
― Pandora Poikilos
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
