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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

~Robert A. Heinlein

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create a sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.

"She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken."
— Ayn Rand

‎'I’ve been used. I’ve been hurt. I’ve been played and rejected and ignored and toyed with and runner-up’d and shattered and glued back together and shattered again. So many times it’s embarrassing. But I am not secondhand. I still love “like new,” because I have bright hope in good things to come.' ~The Dalai Llama (not The Dalai Lama)

Betrayal at any stage of the socio-developmental cycle results in extreme biopsychosocial distress far beyond the event itself. It disrupts the person’s established mental model by which he or she views, understands, and responds to his or her environment and life events, destabilizes the co-occurring psychological contracts by which one trusts, and negates important aspects of viable strategies by which the person copes with life events. Planful problem-solving coping strategies often become non-viable, resulting in activation of primitive biologically based, amygdala-driven coping mechanisms that are often long-term maladaptive.

Recognizing...

"I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace." ~Mohandas Gandhi

and he leadeth them by the neck with a flaxen cord

Eat, drink, and be merry...

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.

May your epiphanies astonish your soul into an awareness never before experienced in this lifetime and may the weight of it expose your secrets.