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FindCenterUsually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be intimate with are frozen in time, unable to allow themselves to love for fear that the loved one will abandon them.

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FindCenterWhen we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.

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

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FindCenterI want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full of hope and possibility. Not this ‘In order to love you, I must make you something else.

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FindCenterGiving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.

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