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“Everything ok here ?" Ryan grunted urging her with a hand on her lower back. "He thinks you should mind your own business,"Makenna told the Beta,translating the grunt. Dominic cocked his head."You understand his grunts?" She lifted her chin."I thought it was crystal clear." Dominic turned to Ryan."Marry her." Ryan grunted again before heading for the door. "What did he say?"Dominic asked her. "Fuck off,"she translated.”

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Book:Savage Urges
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“Noah's eyes held my face. I swallowed hard. The juxtaposition of him sitting in a room full of people while staring at no one but me was overwhelming. Something shifted inside of me at the intimacy of us, eyes locked amid the scraping of twenty graphite pencils on paper. I shaded his face out of nothingness. I smudged the slope of his neck and darkened his delinquent mouth, while the lights accented the right angle of his jaw against the cloudy sky outside. I did not hear the bell. I did not hear the other students rise and leave the room. I did not even notice that Noah no longer sat at the stool.”

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Book:The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
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“Jasper frowned at the name. "Like, a meet-cute?" "At the end," I supplied. "It's when Darcy tells Elizabeth he loves her most ardently, when Mark brings Bridget a new diary, when Harry tells Sally he loves her, when Will buys Junie the inn." I smiled up at the name, putting my hands on my hips. "The grand romantic gesture." So, obviously, we named the bookshop the Grand Romantic.”

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Book:A Novel Love Story
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“You have to help your partner come through for you. Tell them how you'd like them to be. Help them win. Help your partner succeed, because it's in your interest to act like a team. In our individualistic culture, your partner either comes through for you or they don't. But when you begin thinking relationally, ecologically, you realize that you have something to say about how things go between you. "What can I do to help you come through for me?" is an entirely relational question. Thinking like a team is the clear antidote to thinking like two individuals. It's a shift from "I don't like how you're talking to me" to "Honey, I want to hear what you're saying. Could you please lower your voice so I can hear it?" A shift from "I need more sex" to "We both deserve a healthy sex life. What should we do about it?”

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Book:Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship
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“You do,” Bellona agreed absently, still working at getting her own hair free. Jeez, how many pins did she have in there? “Need a haircut that is.” Elliot’s eyes flicked to Sully, seeking his opinion. Sully pinched his lips together to keep from smiling and minutely shook his head in the negative. He liked Elliot’s hair longer than regulation. Elliot’s smile shifted into a smug smirk he hid by taking another sip from his canteen.”

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Book:Imperfect Illusions
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“I was angry that Harry wasn't a woman. That's still the problem. He hasn't been trained since before he could speak to intuit the needs of others. He hasn't been shown how to push against the pulsing muscle of his heart to make room for everyone who needs a space in it. When he does try I say his attempts are inadequate. I don't accept his limitations. But he doesn't admit he has them. He doesn't do what I would do. He doesn't apologize for his presence, take up as little room as possible. Every time he pretends to step up but doesn't and every time I'm disappointed. But neither of us explains and neither of us changes. We used to say thank you and please. We used to try to be what the other one needed and wanted. I thought we were special. I thought we wouldn't take each other for granted...”

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Book:When I Ran Away
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“Thinking that you partner simply is a certain way conveniently removes you from the picture and leaves little room for you to change or repair the relationship. The usual escalation goes from some particular incident to trend thinking (she always, he never) and from there to essential character (she just is cold, he just is a child). Once you're convinced you're dealing with a character issue, you can do little but plead with your partner to change who they are. Good luck with that.”

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Author:Terrence Real
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“Ich spreche tatsächlich vom "normalen" Beziehungsalltag in dieser Gesellschaft, der geprägt ist durch Abwehr von wirklichem, tiefem Austausch. Wie schon im Abschnitt zum Schocktrauma benannt wurde, geschieht dies durch Besänftigen/Manipulieren, Angreifen, Distanzieren oder Totstellen/Betäuben. Das sieht dann zum Beispiel so aus, das die Partner miteinander streiten. Sie greifen sich gegenseitig an, nicht wegen äußerer Diskrepanzen, sondern weil sie sich unbewusst als Bedrohung wahrnehmen. Das ist natürlich kein Austausch, keine Beziehung, kein Kontakt. Denn beide teilen einander nicht mit, was in ihnen wirklich vorgeht. Sie sagen dem jeweils anderen nicht, wie sie sich fühlen, was sie für Bedürfnisse haben, sondern sie führen einen Krieg gegen den anderen. Dann geht es darum wer recht hat, wer den mentalen Kampf gewinnt und somit "überlebt". In anderen Fällen wird der Partner nicht angegriffen, sonder man zieht sich zurück. Man entfernt sich körperlich oder sagt einfach nichts mehr und ist mit den Gedanken woanders. Die Fluchtreaktion. Auch hier wird nichts von dem mitgeteilt, was im eigenen Inneren gerade wirklich los ist. Auch das Erstarren gibt es in Beziehungen, dann "tötet" sich ein Partner regelrecht innerhalb ab, geht weder streitend auf den anderen los noch versucht er, sich zurückzuziehen. Er ist einfach starr, wie nicht vorhanden. Oft werden dafür Substanzen zur Selbstbetäubung als Hilfsmittel genutzt. Auch das ist natürlich absolut fern davon, die eigenen Bedürfnisse und Gefühle mitzuteilen. Eine vierte Variante ist das, was im Englischen als Fawn-Response bezeichnet wird. Übersetzt könnte man es Rehkitz-Reaktion nennen. Es handelt sich dabei um ein Muster, bei dem der Mensch durch besänftigendes, kindliches, symbiotisch unterwerfendes und manipulatives Verhalten Distanz herstellt.”

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Book:Der Vagusschlüssel zur Traumaheilung
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“In Beziehungen geht es immer auch darum, die Balance zwischen Nähe und Distanz zu finden, die für beide Partner passt. Beziehung ist ein Tanz zwischen Distanzierung und ehrlichem Austausch. Je mehr Nähe entsteht, desto mehr an unverarbeiteten und schwierigen Emotionen tritt zutage. Je mehr an alten Emotionen wir aber integrieren können, desto geringer wird die Notwendigkeit zur Distanzherstellung.”

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Book:Der Vagusschlüssel zur Traumaheilung
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“Until we are alone in the world, we may not realize the extent of how our community is designed for couples. Ruth was no longer part of that couple-community. Even if invited to gatherings, Ruth would still feel awkward in a setting of mostly couples—and the couples would feel awkward for her . . . and nothing feels worse than that. Michael Ben Zehabe, Ruth: a woman’s guide to husband material, pg 71”

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Book:Ruth: A Woman's Guide to Husband Material
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“She was diagnosed with leukemia when Lily was six months old.... Diana and I had looked at each other, no clue, nowhere to begin, certainly no answers, other than the largest answer, that is, the answer that emerged in how, despite or maybe in lieu of the terror of the situation, our bodies had involuntarily gravitated toward each other, how our petty grudges and growing disagreements—all the fissures and loggerheads that had been emerging in our marriage—had given way.”

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Author:Charles Bock
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