It's Okay to Care Too Much
The detached person inflicts wounds on their closest loved ones precisely because they are so obsessively in love with them and can’t tolerate the thought of losing them. They also can’t stand the thought of getting too close and having their loved ones see the ugly secret thing deep down inside which will cause the relationship to end.
Adam Smith • Exhausted Wives, Bewildered Husbands: Why your marriage is hurting, and how to blossom as a couple
All efforts to clutch and smother the people in our lives in order to fill our own need for love and attention inevitably end up working against those relationships. So what can you do to change this? One word: Release.
Gabrielle Bernstein • Add More Ing to Your Life: A Hip Guide to Happiness
Therapy is not bad. It is often good. But, I think, it is easy to find tools in this world to force our focus inward. It is encouraged that we constantly check ourselves and check in with ourselves and self-care ourselves. To live externally is to live more dangerously; it is to live a life that takes up public space, a life that is messy and confu... See more
P.E. Moskowitz • A Culture of Introspective Captivity
