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Relationships After Cancer Treatment

By National Cancer Institute Content Team — 2021

Cancer can have a long-lasting impact not only on your body, but on your relationships.

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The best apologies are short, and don’t go on to include explanations that run the risk of undoing them. An apology isn’t the only chance you ever get to address the underlying issue. The apology is the chance you get to establish the ground for future communication.

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Harriet Lerner
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Anger is inevitable when our lives consist of giving in and going along; when we assume responsibility for other people’s feelings and reactions; when we relinquish our primary responsibility to proceed with our own growth and ensure the quality of our own lives; when we behave as if having a...

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Harriet Lerner
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Feeling angry signals a problem, venting anger does not solve it. Venting anger may serve to maintain, and even rigidify, the old rules and patterns in a relationship, thus ensuring that change does not occur.

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Harriet Lerner
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We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.

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Harriet Lerner
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How ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.

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Elizabeth Lesser
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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

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C. S. Lewis
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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.

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C. S. Lewis
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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

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C. S. Lewis
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Let’s Talk About Hard Things

Anna Sale wants you to have that conversation. You know the one. The one that you’ve been avoiding or putting off, maybe for years.

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Anna Sale
2021
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What Is “Intimacy Avoidance”? (Glossary of Narcissistic Relationships)

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Ramani Durvasula
2020
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