I'm not sure there can be loving without commitment, although commitment takes all kinds of forms, and there can be commitment for the moment as well as commitment for all time. The kind that is essential for loving marriages - and love affairs, as well - is a commitment to preserving the essential quality of your partner's soul, adding to them as a person rather than taking away.

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

you have to be very careful when you give to others that you don't tell them how great you are rather than how much you value them.

Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be.

Perhaps the old view of 'Me breadwinner, you hausfrau' worked for our grandparents, when people obligingly popped off before boring each other to death, but it won't work any longer because we are living too long and divorce is needed today to do what death acomplished more economically before.

Girls gave sex to get love and boys gave love to get sex and conning girls was the favorite indoor sport.

There are no perfect men of course, but some are more perfect than others, and we can use all of those we can get.