The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. -Theodore Hesburgh
His mom leaned on him for emotional support. So, to this guy, "love" felt heavy and burdensome. He couldn't help it. Love was a weight to be carried, a responsibiity to be endured. Getting closer to his girlfriend didn't make him feel playful, spontaneous, and erotic... it made him feel like he was entering a maximum security prison.
-Esther Perel, author, Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic
“Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight in order to avoid this? Or are you not terrified by it? I have seen men in real life who so long deceived others that at last their true nature could not reveal itself;... In every man there is something which to a certain degree prevents him from becoming perfectly transparent to himself; and this may be the case in so high a degree, he may be so inexplicably woven into relationships of life which extend far beyond himself that he almost cannot reveal himself. But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love, and he who cannot love is the most unhappy man of all.”
-Soren Kierkegaard, fcuking brilliant manLabels: kodachrome, quotes |
