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In retrospect, it seems obvious that my research about parenting was also a means to subdue my anxieties about becoming a parent.... I grew up afraid ...more

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Love is circumstantial we can love anyone if need be and losing the one we love is the singular catastrophe. Time does not heal it. Every present mome...more

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To look deep into your child's eyes and see in him both yourself and something utterly strange, and then to develop a zealous attachment to every aspe...more

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Those who believe their suffering has been valuable love more readily than those who see no meaning in their pain. Suffering does not necessarily impl...more

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Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw...more

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Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of tha...more

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It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of...more