A romantic relationship will continue to flourish as long as both participants feel loved and cherished.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott
While both partners cherish their time together, they respect each other as individuals who need time alone to reflect, recharge, and relate to the world on their own terms in their own way.
Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.
Kahlil Gibran
They give each other plenty of space, both literally and figuratively, for uninterrupted time to think, to dream, to simply be.
I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Striking the right balance between independence and interdependence is an ongoing dance featuring constantly changing choreography.
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
Anne Taylor Fleming
The dance must organically flow, with each partner following the other’s lead while honoring their own rhythms and the rhythms of life itself.
A good relationship has a pattern like a dance and is built on some of the same rules. The partners do not need to hold on tightly, because they move confidently in the same pattern . . . To touch heavily would be to arrest the pattern and freeze the movement, to check the endlessly changing beauty of its unfolding. There is no place here for the possessive clutch, the clinging arm, the heavy hand; only the barest touch in passing.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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