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In recent years scientists have discovered that mindfulness can reduce stress, improve mood, and enhance our sense of well-being.
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The act of quiet nighttime talking illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.
Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.
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Take me someplace where we can be silent together.
Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.
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To feel physically comfortable with someone else’s body is not a decision you can make. It has very little to do with how two people think or act or talk or even look. The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.
To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.
People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that’s not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws?
In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.
One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual experience of two people, and that these laws cannot be budged any more than gravity can be negotiated with.
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