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Women are unhappy in their marriages because they want men to be more related than most men know how to be. And men are unhappy in their marriages because their women seem so unhappy with them.
The romantic vision promises 'shadowless' relationships, but it is precisely by wrestling with the relationship's shadow, with disillusionment, that deep intimacy is sustained.
...strength is not the absence of vulnerability. Strength is knowing what your weaknesses are and working with them.
Revenge is really a perverse form of communication, a twisted attempt at repair.
Self-esteem is your capacity to recognize your worth and value, despite your human flaws and weaknesses. Your value as a person isn't earned; it isn't conditional; it can't be added to or subtracted from. Your essential worth is neither greater nor lesser than that of any other human being. It can't be. Self-esteem is about being, not doing. You have worth simply because you're alive.
As women shut down their needs, they also shut down their sense of pleasure.
The bonds of silence and protection run deeper, for the moment, than his trust in me.
Does tension exist between our perfect longings and the imperfect world?
The flight from shame into grandiosity lies at the heart of male covert depression.
The difference between real acceptance and just backing away from an issue, or away from the whole relationship, is resentment.
Despite all of their flaws and difficulties, these men don't want to walk out on their own lives, leave their wives and children. They want to come home.
Sustaining relationships with others requires a good relationship to ourselves. Healthy self-esteem is an internal sense of worth that pulls one neither into 'better than' grandiosity nor 'less than' shame.
...changing one's own behavior is a much more promising strategy than insisting on change from the other.
The paradox of real love is that our capacity to sustain intimacy rests on our capacity to tolerate aloneness inside the relationship.
...the most reliable predictor of long-term marital success was a pattern in which the wives, in nonoffensive, clear ways, communicated their needs, and husbands willingly altered their behaviors to meet them.
Learning to listen relationally, listen with cool heads and clear boundaries, listen with the quietness of the heart and the gentleness of the body, means having a self so developed it can afford to yield.
An addict needs shame like a man dying of thirst needs salt water.
