Loving is not the same as longing.
Love is a verb….and an art form.
Like a muscle that must be used or a dance that must be danced, love gets stronger….better with practice.
- Kindness
- Vulnerability
- Patience
- Humor
- Generosity
- Touch
- Gentleness
Helping People Connect
| By Anne Hancock, Psy.D.
| By Anne Hancock, Psy.D.
Intimate partners who want to spend a lifetime together usually profess unconditional love.
They long for it too – wanting certainty and affirmative answers to questions like:
Problem is, certainty is binary and requires 100%.
Open / Closed
Up / Down
On / Off
In / Out
| By Anne Hancock, Psy.D.
Human beings want to be valued and admired but creating a relationship with other people in mind is a bad idea.
If you want your relationship to make others green with envy…
Rule #1: Don’t do it!
Building a relationship intended to
• satisfy someone else,
• ‘show’ someone,
• out-do someone or
• impress someone
ensures distress and unhappiness.
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