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Hey, does my butt look big in these jeans?
“No, they look great!”
These are lies of all kinds, some of which will leave that hilm of mistrust on relationships in a big way, and some of which are minor and insignihicant. The important part for the purposes of this discussion is that forgiveness is part of the intention of loving, part of what is important to think about if we want our relationships to survive and transform us. But it’s also important to know that everyone has a threshold for forgiving and for that reason it is important to use the coupons we get from loving someone who forgives us wisely.
Does The Intention to Love Have to be This Complicated?
Yes it does. People are complicated. Also, regardless of how compatible we are as partners, no partnership is perfectly compatible. In the phase of “ideal love” we often buy into the delusion of how compatible we are, but in “real love” we learn the truth about toilet seat covers and how warm or cold the bedroom should be when we are sharing a bed.
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