The sadistic person is as dependent on the submissive person as the latter is on the former; neither can live without the other. The difference is only that the sadistic person commands, exploits, hurts, humiliates, and that the masochistic person is commanded, exploited, hurt, humiliated. This is a considerable difference in a realistic sense; in a deeper emotional sense, the difference is not so great as that which they both have in common: fusion without integrity.

The narcissistic, the domineering, the possessive woman can succeed in being a 'loving' mother as long as the child is small. Only the really loving woman, the…

In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God's existence, God's justice, God's love. The love…

In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not only tolerate, she must…

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to place their entire life in the hands of some other person. For this purpose they frequently choose…

If you don't want to control what I think, why did you raise your voice? Why did you argue with me at all?

Only the brave know how to forgive...A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.