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Sue Johnson
“We live in the shelter of each other.” — Celtic saying”
Sue Johnson, Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

David Schnarch
“Did I pick the right person? This question inverts the starting and ending points. We do not pick our perfect match because we ourselves are not perfect. The universe hands us a flawless diamond—in the rough. Only if we are willing to polish off every part of ourselves that cannot join do we end up with a soul mate.”
David Schnarch, Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships

“Intimacy is knowing who you are and letting someone else in on the secret.”
Dr. David Schnarch

Sue Johnson
“We now know that love is, in actuality, the pinnacle of evolution, the most compelling survival mechanism of the human species. Not because it induces us to mate and reproduce. We do manage to mate without love! But because love drives us to bond emotionally with a precious few others who offer us safe haven from the storms of life. Love is our bulwark, designed to provide emotional protection so we can cope with the ups and downs of existence. This drive to emotionally attach — to find someone to whom we can turn and say “Hold me tight” — is wired into our genes and our bodies. It is as basic to life, health, and happiness as the drives for food, shelter, or sex. We need emotional attachments with a few irreplaceable others to be physically and mentally healthy — to survive.”
Sue Johnson, Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

Sue Johnson
“no one can dance with a partner and not touch each other’s raw spots. We must know what these raw spots are and be able to speak about them in a way that pulls our partner closer to us.”
Sue Johnson, Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

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