Bid for connection: Each of our daily interactions with another person.

I believe we're going to find that respect and affection are essential to all relationships working and contempt destroys them.

We move in response to our conversation partner’s face, and our brain also fires as we move those muscles and stirs the passions. Paralyzing the face is idiotic.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt.

I liken an affair to the shattering of a Waterford crystal vase. You can glue it back together, but it will never be the same again.

Bid for connection: Each of our daily interactions with another person.

Admit when you're wrong. Shut up when you're right.