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might be a fraction of a percent chance that they are wrong and did not see what they absolutely saw keeps the relationship going on. It goes poorly but it goes.
Mad Love
Mad love (“mad as in crazy”) can occur as a side dish to bad love or as a main course. When I describe mad love here, I describe it as it rehlects the process of attachment, or how human beings connect with one another— more specihically how they form pathological or “sick” attachments.
Healthy attachment in adult relationships rehlects the comfort and security a person feels with their partner. It is the sense that their partner will be there for them when they are needed, that their partner, when necessary, will place your needs over their own needs. Healthy attachment is a function of trust, security and loyalty. Healthy attachment is when you put nice clothes on to go somewhere without your partner and they don’t grill you about why you have to look like that.
Healthy attachment is a two way street. The feeling of security that describes healthy attachment is transmitted by both partners to one another as a constant and soothing undercurrent in a relationship.
Unhealthy attachments can reveal themselves as jealousy, accusations that you are not keeping certain promises (that you
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