Sublime

All the experts I spoke to said that shared

“It’s like this other patient I have who’s in a relationship with a guy who doesn’t treat her very well, and she won’t leave because on some level, she wants to prove to him that she deserves to be treated better. She’s never going to prove it to him, but she won’t stop trying.”

It’s selfish to think about my own wants and desires. My kids’/husband’s/clients’ needs are more important than mine.

There’s a difference between what makes for a good boyfriend and what makes for a good husband. Over the years, stability and dependability outrank fireworks and witty banter.

With his books Now, Discover Your Strengths and The Truth About You, Marcus Buckingham is a true-strengths zealot.

First find a good match, then fall in love. Above all, don’t think you’ve “fallen in love” only to learn too late that it’s a bad match.

Who can I trust to be consistently there for me?

Our partners aren’t uniquely damaged. We just know them a lot better than the exciting stranger. Our partner suffers from the disadvantages of incumbency: of having been in our lives for so long that we have had the opportunity to be patiently introduced to the full range of their inadequacies. Our certainty that we might be happier with another pe

I wanted a cross between a therapist and a cowboy.