Diversity of Thought: Opposites attract, but can lead to problems.
Entitlement: Damaged people on extreme ends (Victim/Savior) could feel entitled and self-centered.
Chemistry: Damaged people are attracted to each other, leading to intense and unhealthy relationship. A true relationship should have less drama and more boring living with lot of safe space to express oneself.
Fix Yourself: Damaged people should work on themselves first.
Healthy relationships: Exciting, due to shared experiences and boring, due to lack of manufactured drama.
Highlights
Opposite qualities can be both healthy and desirable in relationships when there is regular communication, shared goals, and mutual respect (View Highlight)
While it’s easy to place blame entirely on the domineering partner, the inferior partner enables the abuse by allowing it to persist (View Highlight)
In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.Wayne Dyer,Your Erroneous Zones (View Highlight)
while staying in a toxic relationship can distract you from life’s problems, it will never take them away. If anything, it will make them worse (View Highlight)
Damaged people undo damage by working on themselves. That’s the whole point of self-help: You must do it yourself; no one else can fix you (View Highlight)
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (View Highlight)
Instead of feeling intense chemistry rooted in conflicting beliefs, people in healthy relationships feel a deep sense of peace with one another. (View Highlight)
Independent, whole people don’t need other people to feel complete—they are complete because they take responsibility for their lives (View Highlight)