If you lie to your husband - even about something so banal as how much you drink - each lie is a brick in a wall going up between you, and when he tells you he loves you, it's deflected away.
Interpretation
Lying creates barriers in relationships, impacting emotional connections.
This quote emphasizes the detrimental influence of dishonesty on intimate relationships. Even seemingly trivial lies contribute to a growing distance between partners, ultimately affecting the authenticity of their love and communication. Trust, once eroded, makes genuine expressions of affection feel insincere and deflected, highlighting the importance of honesty in maintaining close bonds.
In practice
In a marriage counseling session, a therapist might use this quote to illustrate the impact of dishonesty.
There's a space at the bottom of an exhale, a little hitch between taking in and letting out that's a perfect zero you can go into. There's a rest point between the heart muscle's close and open - an instant of keenest living when you're momentarily dead. You can rest there.
Mother’s particular devils had remained mysterious to me for decades. So had her past. Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth’s direction, even those who believe that such a journey might axiomatically set them free.
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.
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Reading is socially accepted disassociation. You flip a switch and you’re not there anymore. It’s better than heroin. More effective and cheaper and legal.
The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.
Help one another: this is what Jesus teaches us and this what I am doing, and doing with all my heart.
Things don't change in a marriage until the spouse who is taking responsibility for a problem that is not hers decides to say or do something about it.
Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.
I can remember, when I was in college, irritating deeply somebody I was going out with, because he would ask me what I was thinking and I would say I was thinking nothing. And it was true.
How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?
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