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Some injurious transactions are clear examples of disempowerment (You little shit!) while others are clear examples of false empowerment (You’re the only good thing in my life!). But most relational trauma empowers and disempowers at the same time.
Bruce Springsteen • Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship (Goop Press)
Parents have a spiritual mandate to be guardian angels in the lives of their children. When parents lose sight of their spiritual mission and use their children selfishly, the children may develop emotional wounds that are significant and permanent. Parents must be willing to do whatever they need to do, including therapy, to rise to the occasion a
... See moreKenneth M. Adams • When He's Married to Mom: How to Help Mother-Enmeshed Men Open Their Hearts to True Love and Commitment
By their mid-30s, if a man maximizes his potential, she needs him more than he needs her. Whether he acknowledges this shift is irrelevant; her hindbrain is making the evaluation. Conversely, if it turns out she made a bad bet in her 20s by marrying a guy who never became high-value in his 30s, that’s when she exits the marriage – before she’s too
... See moreRollo Tomassi • The Rational Male - The Players Handbook: A Red Pill Guide to Game
From Broken Boy to Mended Man: A Positive Plan to Heal Your Childhood Wounds and Break the Cycle
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having a hard time maintaining social and intimate relationships
Maria Clarke • Healing Your Wounded Inner Child: A CBT Workbook to Overcome Past Trauma, Face Abandonment and Regain Emotional Stability. (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
“Come hell or high water, short of outright physical self-defense, I will not indulge in words or behaviors that are disrespectful to any other human being. And neither will I sit passively by if someone is disrespectful to me. I will ask them to speak differently to me, and if that doesn’t work, I will break the interaction and leave. But I won’t
... See moreBruce Springsteen • Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship (Goop Press)
Jeff, with his gentle romantic old-fashioned notions of women as clinging vines. Terry, with his clear decided practical theories that there were two kinds of women—those he wanted and those he didn't; Desirable and Undesirable was his demarcation. The latter as a large class, but negligible—he had never thought about them at all.
Charlotte Gilman • Herland
Curtis’s book teaches couples how to create a vision statement for their
Lori Gottlieb • Mr Good Enough: The case for choosing a Real Man over holding out for Mr Perfect
It’s absolutely vital that you always keep in mind the following phrase: The woman you marry is never the same woman you divorce. Remember, Western family law is written in such a way that it assumes women are the weaker sex. Men are the privileged sex and are also the abusive sex by default.