How Living Apart Together Is Changing Long-Term Relationships
Modern relationships are cauldrons of contradictory longings: safety and excitement, grounding and transcendence, the comfort of love and the heat of passion. We want it all, and we want it with one person. Reconciling the domestic and the erotic is a delicate balancing act that we achieve intermittently at best. It requires knowing your partner... See more
Esther Perel • Mating in Captivity
Sleeping in separate bedrooms is more common in relationships than one might think: One in five couples sleep apart, and almost-two thirds of those couples do so every night, according to a January survey of 2,200 Americans conducted by the International Housewares Association for The New York Times. Interior designers have reconfigured homes to... See more
instagram.comMany couples have trouble with this aspect of marriage. They feel abandoned when their spouse wants time apart. In reality, spouses need time apart, which makes them realize the need to be back together. Spouses in healthy relationships cherish each other’s space and are champions of each other’s causes.
John Townsend • Boundaries: When To Say Yes, How to Say No: When to Say Yes, When to Say No, to Take Control of Your Life
And yet, somewhere beyond my carefully guarded solitude–I know my walls are not unbreakable. With the right person, I’d want to see what dishes they’re cooking and hear the songs they’re playing on repeat. But real love should never feel like surveillance. It should be the kind of knowing that doesn’t require proof. The kind of presence that... See more
The epidemic of constant communication
