Love doesnât have to be on Valentineâs Day. It doesnât have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesnât have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesnât have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third day.It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirt.It just has to be.
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Women and men who have established no-lie relationships talk about them with reverence, even when they are not permanent and, in fact, even when they are not romantic. Why? In the no-lie relationship there is acceptance of who each partner is, rather than a shallow idealization. There is a genuine commitment to the relationship beyond the immediate. You each act as though you are in a real partnership that will last.
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So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.
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I think we go well together. I like being with you because I’m never bored. Even when we’re not talking, even when we’re not touching, even when we’re not in the same room, I’m not bored. I’m never bored. I think it’s because I have confidence in you, in your thoughts. Do you understand? I love everything I see in you, and everything I don’t see. I know your faults, but as it turns out, I feel as though your faults go well with my qualities. We’re not afraid of the same things. Even our inner demons go well together! You, you’re worth more than you show…
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You cold or something?’ he said. She strained against him; she wanted to pass clear through him: ‘It’s a chill, it’s nothing’; and then, pushing a little away: ‘Say you love me.’I said it.’No, oh no. You haven’t. I was listening. And you never do.’Well, give me time.’Please.’He sat up and glanced at a clock across the room. It was after five. Then decisively he pulled off his windbreaker and began to unlace his shoes.Aren’t you going to, Clyde?’He grinned back at her. ‘Yeah, I’m going to.’I don’t mean that; and what’s more, I don’t like it: you sound as though you were talking to a whore.’Come off it, honey. You didn’t drag me up here to tell you about love.’You disgust me,’ she said.Listen to her! She’s sore!’A silence followed that circulated like an aggrieved bird. Clyde said, ‘You want to hit me, huh? I kind of like you when you’re sore: that’s the kind of girl you are,’ which made Grady light in his arms when he lifted and kissed her. ‘You still want me to say it?’ Her head slumped on his shoulder. ‘Because I will,’ he said, fooling his fingers in her hair. ‘Take off your clothes–and I’ll tell it to you good.
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The more invested I am in my own ideas about reality, the more those experiences will feel like victimizations rather than the ups and downs of relating. Actually, I believe that the less I conceptualize things that way, the more likely it is that people will want to stay by me, because they will not feel burdened, consciously or unconsciously, by my projections, judgments, entitlements, or unrealistic expectations.
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How could I be sleeping with this particular man…. Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.
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It was never about the world being too big, it was more like she was too much for the world to handle.
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