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Slow but Sure

Nobody is right for anyone, with Philippa Perry

NL: What are the benefits to falling in love slowly?

PP: What makes a satisfactory coupling is not thinking, he or she is right for me, from the start. Nobody is right for anyone. Actually, what makes somebody right is commitment. Then when you’re committed to each other and you have true dialogue, that means you allow the other to impact upon you and they allow you to impact on them. You’re not rigid and unchanging; you are moved by each other. It’s like two stones rubbing together until suddenly they fit. You have your initial years of sexual attraction and then something deeper can hook in. Rather than having a relationship with your fantasy of that person you begin to have a real relationship with them; you’ve impacted each other enough to actually know each other. And to know someone is to love them. So you make someone the right person and they make you the right person. There isn’t someone the right shape out there for every person – that has to happen in relationships. That’s why relationships get better, because we allow mutual impact.

- Natasha Lunn, “Conversations on Love.”

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Cum arată terapia din interior? Cartea ilustrată a Philippei Perry dezvăluie, cu umor și claritate, dinamica profundă a relației terapeutice.

🔗 descoperă!

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“A parent once asked me whether it was dangerous to apologize to children. ‘But don’t they need you to be right, otherwise they won’t feel secure?’ She asked. No! What children need is for us to be real and authentic, not perfect”

To be real and authentic, not perfect :)

From the book by Philippa Perry

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Philippa Perry @ 5x15

Philippa Perry is a psychotherapist who, in an attempt to demystify psychotherapy, wrote the graphic novel, Couch Fiction. Her latest book, published in May 2012, is How To Stay Sane and she is also on the faculty of The School of Life.