Relationships
Alex Wittenberg and
Relationships
Our generation’s collective consciousness in regards to love is a complex/spoiled one. Through globalization and over-stimuli we are drowning in contradicting self-imposed subjective expectations and demands towards love.
To have → love.
To want → desire.
Imagination, admiration, novelty, and vulnerability play protagonist roles in the feeling of drawness towards a partner.
Neediness is an anti-aphrodisiac – anything resembling parenthood.
The erotic as an antidote to death, mechanism to survive during the holocaust. The erotic mind is full of contradictions, love them <3
"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
What is love? Ask 19 geniuses. Get 19 answers.
• Plato: It's remembering a soul.
• Freud: It's desire in disguise.
• Buddha: It's letting go.
• Nietzsche: It's dangerous weakness.
• Aristotle: It's one soul in two bodies.
• Kafka: It's a wound that... See more
Unfilteredx.comWanting to be enough for someone else is self-abandonment.
Joe Hudson • Tweet
You’ve been duped into thinking you can create a life without danger, one liberated from constraints and uncomfortable emotions, and that such a life is desirable. But you can’t, and it’s not. If you connect with someone and it comes with the risk of losing something, good. You’re alive!
Freya India • Risk-Aversion Is Killing Romance - By Freya India - GIRLS
Reminds me of the the ‘In-Yun’ concept if it was applied inside of an existing relationship
The way I think about coaching is very much how I think about parenting, and I think it translates in lots of other places, that your ability to drive change is about the quality of your relationship, not your hierarchy.