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aliljaded 53F
23957 posts
2/18/2017 1:58 pm
Relationships....

Relationships....

When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in the same pattern. The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now. Relationships must be like islands, one must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands, surrounded and interrupted by the sea, and continually visited and abandoned by the tides.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s “The Gift From The Sea”


"Men need to hunt. She obviously understands this. She’s offering herself as prey. Not easy prey. But willing.”


MissLadywood 51F
6195 posts
2/19/2017 9:13 am

Perfectly said and a beautiful picture too
I do prefer to spend my energy on the here and now.

Life So Short, The Craft So Long To Learn


rosaenaluin 65F
10842 posts
2/19/2017 7:10 am

Wow, beautiful,

we change, so does our relations and especially our view on them.

It is a work in progress, all the time, not taking one thing for granted.

thank you for this beautiful post,


Dreamcatcher__ 87M
7020 posts
2/18/2017 7:37 pm





"Nah... it ain't enough... but it's close."

__Robert Redford, counting up the loot to be given to Luther's family in the last scene of The Sting

If that's not clear enough, this is my experience with relationships: The closest you can get to the perfect one is to to construct a composite from a scattering of perfect or nearly perfect pieces, because a fully assembled perfect relationship doesn't exist.


aliljaded replies on 2/19/2017 4:33 am:
Great Scene ... Awesome Movie!


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