I think that passion if really intense is always destructive if not to the two involved, always to other people.
Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
Is suffering so very serious? ...I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful... hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain... is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one
Continuing to expose the children to my and Adrienne's dysfunctional and volatile relationship is causing harm to the children.
He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.
One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.
An Internet 'relationship' doesn't have to be catastrophically harmful to be inappropriate. Hurtful is bad enough.
On a very basic, concrete level, there have been times when my work, regardless of the content, has harmed relationships because I made that work such a primary priority in my life.
'The Split' is actually really hopeful - although it's left me reeling slightly, thinking about what we do to each other in the name of love, within the contract of marriage.
Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.
Maybe you simply criticized someone you hardly knew. You ruined part of their life. For them, part of your life, too.
