“Despite all of their flaws and difficulties, these men don't want to walk out on their own lives, leave their wives and children. They want to come home.”

“Women are unhappy in their marriages because they want men to be more related than most men know how to be. And men are unhappy in their marriages because their women seem so unhappy with them.”

“...strength is not the absence of vulnerability. Strength is knowing what your weaknesses are and working with them.”

“...changing one's own behavior is a much more promising strategy than insisting on change from the other.”

“Revenge is really a perverse form of communication, a twisted attempt at repair.”

“Learning to listen relationally, listen with cool heads and clear boundaries, listen with the quietness of the heart and the gentleness of the body, means having a self so developed it can afford t...”

“It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you.It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.It's not a weakness.It's your best strength.”

“No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.”

“The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.”