Too many Americans are spurred to achieve, rather than to a… - Thomas Lewis

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Too many Americans are spurred to achieve, rather than to attach.

Thomas Lewis

A General Theory of Love · January 9, 2001 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

love lack-of-love overachievers americans attachment attachment-disorder attachment-trauma dysfunctional-relationships emotional-neglect focus-on-success overachievement overachiever dysfunctional-family unloving

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All of us, when we engage in relatedness, fall under the gravitational influence of another’s emotional world, at the same time that we are bending his emotional mind with ours. Each relationship is a binary star, a burning flux of exchanged force fields, the deep and ancient influences emanating and felt, felt and emanating.

Long before science existed, sharp-eyed men and women told each other stories about how people are, stories that have never lost their power to enchant and instruct. The purpose of using science to investigate human nature is not to replace these stories but to augment and deepen them.

The skill of becoming and remaining attuned to another's emotional rhythms requires a solid investment of years.

Too many Americans are spurred to achieve, rather than to attach. - Thomas Lewis

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