Relationships
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Relationships
Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.
— Neil Strauss
What the humans like is responsiveness - by Sasha Chapin What the humans like is responsiveness
Sasha Chapinsashachapin.substack.comThis is good! So elegant. Feels like a theory of everything when it comes to relationships.
Reminds me of the the ‘In-Yun’ concept if it was applied inside of an existing relationship
“Do not be absent for too long, then come and ask about how I am, details die with time and stories change.”
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Mahmoud Darwish
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Mahmoud Darwish
A quote by Mahmoud Darwish
Wanting to be enough for someone else is self-abandonment.
Joe Hudson • Tweet
But when they say, “I’m thinking of leaving,” I think, Now hang on a sec. You had me right up to that last bit. Fine: you’ve changed; she’s changed; life has changed. And the kids—well, they’ve disrupted, interrupted, confronted, confounded, and otherwise fundamentally altered everything . All very, very hard. And yes, sometimes it feels
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“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”
—James Baldwin
—James Baldwin