Relationships
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Relationships
“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
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!
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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
In other words, siblings are forced together, and then suddenly they’re not. The independence of adulthood—when proximity is no longer required and the obligations lessen—creates opportunities for siblings to build, repair, or discard the relationships of their youth, to stay stuck in or break free of the roles they played as children.
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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
... See more"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
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“You can predict the long term health of a relationship by whether each cut heals to 99% or 101%. ”
― Michael Mayer