Mensen die emotioneel dichtbij elkaar staan krijgen soms meer van elkaar te zien dan hen lief is. Daardoor ontstaan spanningen en irritaties. Soms wil je een verbroken relatie afsluiten of heb je een frisse start nodig na een break-up. Rust in jezelf geeft rust in je relaties
We tuck our messy real selves behind polished veneers, orchestrate grand gestures, and perform various psychoemotional acrobatics driven by the illusion that love is something we must earn by what we do, rather than something that comes to us unbidden simply for who we are.
Kahlil Gibran on loving in relationships
"Knowledge of each other, not of the flesh but through the flesh, knowledge of self, the real him, the real her, in extremis, the mask slipped from the face..."
The most superficially irrational, immature, lamentable, but nonetheless common of all the presumptions of love is that the person to whom we have pledged ourselves is not just the center of our emotional existence but is also, as a result — and yet in a very strange, objectively insane and profoundly unjust way — responsible for everything that happens to us, for good or ill. Therein lies the peculiar and sick privilege of love
