Author: Gilead Yeffett

In an article in the New York Times, the writer Jonathan Franzen wrote that “the prospect of pain generally, the pain of loss, of breakup, of death, is what makes it so tempting to avoid love and stay safely in the world of liking.  And yet pain hurts but it doesn’t kill. When you consider the alternative — an anesthetised dream of self-sufficiency, abetted by technology — pain emerges as the natural product and natural indicator of being alive in a resistant world. To go through a life painlessly is to have not lived”.

I believe that the capacity to connect

Every relationship has hidden promises within it, ones that are seldom talked about.  During the lifetime of every relationship, some of these promises are kept and some are broken.  If we don’t talk openly about the broken silent promises we risk behaving like two warriors fighting each other with invisible weapons.

This is a fun and creative video describing what happens in our bodies during sex.

“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought and could be”.  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being”.  John Joseph