Relationships
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Relationships
Wanting to be enough for someone else is self-abandonment.
Joe Hudson • Tweet
Embracing excellence means going beyond “the encouraged mediocrity of our society.” - Audre Lorde
“The aim of each thing which we do is to make our lives and the lives of our children richer and more possible.”
— Audre Lorde
"What most of us are waiting for is someone else to really think you’re okay with all your warts, just the way you are." - Charlotte Joko Beck
Sara Campbell on Substack
ritualized, compulsive self-disclosure is not intimacy
it’s often a defense mechanism, one that masquerades as vulnerability but actually kills erotic charge, polarity, and mystery
shared experience, unspoken tension, and real-time attunement are the components of intimacy
it’s often a defense mechanism, one that masquerades as vulnerability but actually kills erotic charge, polarity, and mystery
shared experience, unspoken tension, and real-time attunement are the components of intimacy
Sebastian Ballister • Tweet
One of the central myths of American romance right now is this notion that you and your partner should be able to tell each other anything and everything
I am begging you not to do this
There are so many things about you that are just for you, for your soul, as well as a whole other category of things that are only for your therapist or priest to kno... See more
I am begging you not to do this
There are so many things about you that are just for you, for your soul, as well as a whole other category of things that are only for your therapist or priest to kno... See more
X. It’s what’s happening
Intelligence is a form of friendship with the world. It can’t be cultivated out of fear of it.
~ Cordelia • Tweet
“Cuando uno admite sus miedos y que la vida no es eterna, la confianza puede renacer de esta vulnerabilidad”, dijo Dufourmantelle.“Es un riesgo estar vivo, pocos seres lo están”.
Agotados de atravesar esos lugares de intensificación de la falta, algunos cuerpos van retirando su interés de lo sexual. Porque determinadas prácticas se nos imponen de forma ideológica, y no accedemos a menudo al tanteo y la duda como caminos de sublimación y conocimiento no discursivo, pasada la novedad en la que se despliega como movimiento de
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