We no longer get work out of our children; today we get meaning.
We’re walking contradictions, seeking safety and predictability on one hand and thriving on diversity on the other.
Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery.
Very often we don’t go elsewhere because we are looking for another person. We go elsewhere because we are looking for another self. It isn’t so much that we want to leave the person we are with as we want to leave the person we have become.
Trouble looms when monogamy is no longer a free expression of loyalty but a form of enforced compliance.
Modern love is the enterprise that everyone wants to be a part of, yet there’s a fifty percent divorce rate in round one and a sixty-five percent divorce rate in round two.
If you start to feel that you have given up too many parts of yourself to be with your partner, then one day you will end up looking for another person in order to reconnect with those lost parts.