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FindCenterMany people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling.

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FindCenterAll too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm’s way.

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FindCenterLiving simply makes loving simple.

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FindCenterLove is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

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FindCenterTrue love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.

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FindCenterWhen men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better. To be loving we willingly hear the other’s truth, and most important, we affirm the value of truth telling. Lies may make people feel better, but they do not help them to know love.

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

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FindCenterIndividuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives.

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FindCenterOne of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others.

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FindCenterTo love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.

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