It is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal.
Stephanie DowrickRestraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your imagination
Stephanie DowrickIt should not be difficult to accept the idea that someone else is, in 'your experience of them', in part your self-creation. But it is difficult and sometimes impossible. Impossible because accepting the idea that you are in part creating your 'other' forces you to take on board a high degree of self responsibility. Few of us easily do that. p.234
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