NORWOODGROEP FORUM

24 februari "It is both naive and presumptuous to tell a man what he should do in order to be with you. He is who he is. Are you willing to accept that?" Het is zowel naïef als aanmatigend om een man te gaan vertellen wat hij moet doen om een relatie met jou te kunnen hebben. Hij is wie hi...

23 februari

"No relationship can save you from the pain of your history. Until you walk through your pain, you'll simply repeat your history."

Geen enkele relatie kan je redden van de pijn van je verleden. Totdat je door de pijn heen gaat, zul je simpelweg je geschiedenis blijven herhalen.

22 februari "Very few models exist of people relating as peers in healthy, mature, honest, nonmanipulative, and nonexploitative ways, probably for two reasons: First, in all honesty, such relationships in real life are fairly rare. Second, since the quality of emotional interplay in a healthy r...

21 februari

"A need for control is often operating in women who team up with much younger men, just as in men who team up with much younger women."

Controlebehoefte speelt vaak bij vrouwen die relaties aangaan met jongere mannen, net als bij mannen die relaties aangaan met jongere vrouwen.

20 februari "The possibility of contracting AIDS through sexual encounters that are part of a desperate search for "Mr. Right" finally puts the life-threatening nature of relationship addiction in a clear light." De mogelijkheid om AIDS op te lopen door seksuele ontmoetingen die ...

19 februari "A rule of thumb is: The more difficult it is to end a relationship that is bad for you, the more elements of your personal childhood struggle it contains. When you are loving too much, very likely you are trying to overcome the old fears, anger, frustration, and pain from childhood...

18 februari "Twelve-Step programs can provide the primary source of recovery from addictions, including relationship addiction, and counseling can serve as an adjunct, but not vice versa." Twaalf Stappen programma's kunnen de primaire bron zijn voor herstel van verslavingen, inclusief rela...

17 februari

"If our addiction is our path to God, then we must be grateful for it."

Als onze verslaving onze weg naar God is, dan moeten we daar dankbaar voor zijn.

16 februari "Many women make the mistake of looking for a man with whom to develop a relationship without first developing a relationship with themselves; they run from man to man, looking for what is missing within. The search must begin at home, within the self. No one can ever love us enough...

15 februari "Your soul has designed this life for you in order for you to learn its lessons. Be grateful for all those people who have been your teachers." Je ziel heeft dit leven voor je ontworpen zodat je de lessen ervan kunt leren. Wees dankbaar voor al die mensen die jouw leraren zijn ...

14 februari "At our worst we women who love too much are relationship addicts, "man junkies" strung out on pain, fear, and yearning. As if this weren't bad enough, men may not be the only thing we're hooked on. Not every woman who loves too much also eats too much or drinks too much o...

13 februari "All diseases of addiction, including loving too much, imply both the violation of one's value system and the inability to stop or change through one's own efforts. Self-will must be surrendered and the help of a Higher Will invoked." Alle verslavingsziekten, inclusief relatiev...

12 februari "Forgiving doesn't mean allowing ourselves to be hurt again; it means, among other things, detaching so that we don't take another's actions toward us so personally. Far from making us weak people who can be stepped on by others, forgiveness frees us so that we never have to allow o...

11 februari "When a woman who loves too much gives up her crusade to change the man in her life, he is then left to ponder the consequences of his own behavior. Since she is no longer frustrated and unhappy, but rather is becoming more and more excited about life, the contrast to his own troubl...

10 februari "If your soul's lesson is to forgive, you must first experience the unforgivable. Otherwise, where is the lesson? Bless and forgive and, at least in your heart, ask forgiveness from all the men (and the women, too) with whom you've ever fought and struggled in the past. When we forg...