In a brain scan, relational pain—that caused by isolation during punishment—can look the same as physical abuse. Is alone in the corner the best place for your child?

I wanted to surround myself with the kind of people who could help me turn my life around; people whom I could rub up against like iron and be sharpened.

Men tend to remember the best things about the women they’ve loved and to forget the worst, which is why so many men make the same mistakes with women again and again. Women tend to...

I was aware that we were both silently making those inevitable comparisons, putting our relationship in context. She is more this and less that. He is better or worse in these ways. It is human...

Diversity is like a buffet, only with people. That’s why I like associating with individuals who are as close to macaroni and cheese as humanly possible.

[M]an is not an island, he is more like a spaghetti junction.

He’s a year shorter than me, but he’s a foot younger. I love him like the brother of an only child.

Parents raise children then grow old, and their children forget the things their old parents did for them, because their brains don’t remember before they grew selfish.There are buildings all over the world full of...

She is the gin. Cold, intoxicating. Gives you a rush, makes you warm inside, makes you lose your head. Take too much, it makes you sick and shuts you down. He is the coffee, hot,...

Were men and women ever really just friends?

He’d wanted her. Out of all the women in the world, he’d wanted her. Wanted, hell, she thought grinning now. Pursued, demanded. Taken. And while she could admit all of that was exciting, he’d gone...

Cereal face,” and I took it while eating Cocoa Puffs.

Love has no contingencies, no expectations, no ideals. Love is a gift to thyself, the experience of divinity in full expression.

Loving someone gives them permission to do things to you because they know you’ll forgive them. -Shaye

Marriage is not 50-50. Divorce is 50-50. Marriage has to be 100-100. It isn’t dividing everything in half, but giving everything you’ve got!

I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those of adults. I am an adult, and I used to be a teenager,...

We laughed together. It’s so lovely laughing with a man. It feels positive. Relaxed…

Relationships for women are more than taking off the clothes and wearing them back. It is about attachment of emotions, and feelings, but on the other hand, men are like fast and furious.

Be a bit of a challenge; not because you’re playing games but because you realize you’re worth the extra effort.

Fine! He is being passive aggressive with me, and it’s gonna backfire; I’m gonna be active friendly.

Animals are precious gifts offering unconditional love.

Love is the castle, doubt is the moat, desire is the paddle and hope is the boat.

I had a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hand’s...

He’d had to fold his long legs into his desk. His boots had seen better days, and his jeans unraveled in a curiously irresistible way at the bottom. He didn’t look like anyone I’d ever...

You’re right, Ruth. You did screw up my career. You screwed it up good. Best thing you ever did, matter of fact. But you know something? It’s okay. Because if it was between the church...

Give a man your attentionLose hisIgnore a manGain his attention

All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way-if he ever attacked...

I struggled with how I could begin to communicate across the immense chasm that my husband’s affair had put between myself and this man that, only months ago, had been the person I would have...

..I find it incredible impossible not to cry when I hear Stevie Nicks’s “Landslide,” especially the lyric: “I’ve been afraid of changing, because I’ve built my life around you.” I think a good test to...

Well, honey, once you’ve been head-over-heels in love with somebody, you don’t go back to being ‘friends’. It doesn’t work that way. – Megan’s Dad

She understands suddenly that the stuff that fills her up is not the love or attention she might get from other people; it is the love she herself has for other people. We are, Portia...

I used to think I knew everything. I was a “smart person” who “got things done,” and because of that, the higher I climbed, the more I could look down and scoff at what seemed...

We’re LIVING.

Hayatımızdaki bazı insanların zamanı yoktur. Öyle parıltılı anlar yaşanmıştır ki, bağ, Yıldız tozlarından türeyen bir göbek kordonundan farksız olur. Zaman basitçe, Tanrı’ya bırakılan bir bahşişe dönüşür.

But how can you be there for someone who doesn’t need you? It’s like trying to scale a wall without anyone on the top throwing you a rope. You just keep sliding down and eventually...

Don’t think, just feel it. I know you do; I can see it on your face.

One dead and one alone. That’s how the story ends.

This catch-22 happens a lot to men. A man can sense that a woman wants to know if he loves her. He doesn’t want to share those feelings because, if he does, she will expect...

I opened the door and stepped in. Raw pain filled me at the sight of my painting. ‘Show me what it looked like, before the fire.’ His request surprised me, but I did as he...

I’m terrified of getting involved with someone who disappoints me or leaves me empty and alone. I’m terrified of rejection, so I set my expectations so high that they can never be met, and I...

There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor the other of my detestation. This kind of dissimulation…is a...

Slowly, then all at once.Slowly, as I take my time to know the things that would endear me to you. Slowly, as I attempt to cultivate a bond I hope would never easily sever. Slowly,...

You know you’ve reached the end of a relationship: when your lover now demands that your jokes be funny before they laugh.

Got the itch? – Jared

The more I learned the less I felt I knew you and I got lost counting stars, I fell dreaming. Sometimes I’d wander away. Maybe I wasn’t ready or maybe it was just a hard...

She got inside me with her story. I could feel her flowing in me and far, faraway I related in parallel. Her smile was a reflection of my own brokenness. It defined buried feelings that...

I love you because you loved me first. Yet you love me, saying I loved you first. Funny, our love thrives believing the other person started it.

Focus. She’s Maddie. Your friend. Would you eyeball Keith or Dane’s butt like that? ~ Zach

Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me.Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you.But asking for help with gratitude says:We have the power to help each other.

You get what you give,” we will tell his sorry, selfish ass.” The Betty Lady has spoken. I detect a Bronx accent.”But,” I demur, “it will make the other woman say, ´See? She IS a...