Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love.
Interpretation
Lifelong love can exist without physical intimacy in a relationship.
This quote suggests that love is not solely defined by physical intimacy. It highlights the importance of emotional connection, companionship, and commitment in a relationship, indicating that couples can experience a deep, enduring bond without frequent sexual activity.
In practice
In a therapy session, discussing the different expressions of love.
Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege. I want to live in a world where all women have access to education, and all women can earn PhDβs, if they so desire. Privilege does not have to be negative, but we have to share our resources and take direction about how to use our privilege in ways that empower those who lack it.
Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with the opportunity to have the unconditional love we may have always longed to receive from someone else.
While privacy strengthens all our bonds, secrecy weakens and damages connection. Lerner points out that we do not usually "know the emotional costs of keeping a secret" until the truth is disclosed. Usually, secrecy involves lying. And lying is always the setting for potential betrayal and violation of trust.
When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture.
Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
I still think it's important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of marriage in patriarchal society β because once you marry within a society that remains patriarchal, no matter how alternative you want to be within your unit, there is still a culture outside you that will impose many, many values on you whether you want them to or not.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
No love that a man has will only give him pleasure in return- he shall also suffer pain because of it, except for love of Allah.
We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
Love has as few problems as a motor car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us
A miracle. Here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee, but by this light I take thee for pity. Beatrice: I would not deny you, but by this good day, I yield upon great persuasion, and partly to save your life, for I was told you were in a consumption. Benedick: Peace. I will stop your mouth.
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