A Love Affair

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“Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which you are. That person is literally your other half. And you and the other are one. A love affair isn’t that. That is a relationship of pleasure, and when it gets to be unpleasurable , it’s off. But a marriage is a life commitment, and a life commitment means the prime concern of your life. If marriage is not the prime concern, you are not married.”

~Joseph Campbell

Personal Growth

In my early professionals years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth? -Carl Rogers

Love?

In a social environment that is ever crowded and impersonal, it is becoming increasing important to reconsider the value of close personal relationships before we are driven to ask the forlorn question, “What happened to love?” Desmond Morris