30 Lessons for Loving: Advice from the Wisest Americans on Love, Relationships, and Marriage
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30 Lessons for Loving: Advice from the Wisest Americans on Love, Relationships, and Marriage
Instead of asking "Are you the one," ask two questions of each of you. Do I accept my partner despite their shortcomings? Do I commit to nurture them to achieve what is important to them? And likewise, do they accept me and do they commit to me? All you need is four yeses.
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There’s a parallel here – as so often – between our experience at work and what happens in relationships. There’s no doubt that we could (without any blame attaching to a current partner) have successful relationships with dozens, even hundreds of different people. Each would bring to the fore different sides of our personality, please us (and upse
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If you remember only one lesson from this book, it should be that love is at the epicenter of our happiness. Around the year 400, the great Saint Augustine summarized this lesson as the secret to a good life: “Love and do what you will.”[1] But love is reserved for people, not things; to misplace your love is to invite frustration and futility—to g
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The question of whether we marry, and if so whom, is a serious one. In terms of happiness in life it is one of the most important decisions that we will ever make,