Dossie Easton famous quotes

03-28-2025

Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability Nothing deepens intimacy like the experiences that we share when we feel flayed, with our skins off, scared and vulnerable, and our partner is there with us, willing to share in the scary stuff.
-- Dossie Easton

#Scary #Skins #Stuff
Once you have a handle on loving yourself, you can practice sharing that love with others. Youâ€™ve probably been taught to reserve the language of love for when youâ€™re feeling overwhelmingly tender and passionate, and only for those who have made huge commitments to you. We recommend instead learning to recognize and acknowledge all the sweet feelings that make life worthwhile even when they donâ€™t knock you overâ€”and, moreover, learning to communicate those feelings to the people who inspire them.
-- Dossie Easton

#Sweet #Commitment #Loving Yourself
One remedy for the fear of not being loved is to remember how good it feels to love someone. If you're feeling unloved and you want to feel better, go love someone, and see what happens.
-- Dossie Easton

#Fear #Feel Better #Feelings
The real test of love is when a personâ€”including youâ€”can know your weaknesses, your stupidities and your smallnesses, and still love you.
-- Dossie Easton

#Real #Love You #Love Is
It is cruel and insensitive to interpret an affair as a symptom of sickness in the relationship, as it leaves the 'cheated-on' partner - who may already be feeling insecure - to wonder what is wrong with him Many people have sex outside their primary relationships for reasons that have nothing to do with any inadequacy in their partner or in the relationship.
-- Dossie Easton

#Sex #Insecure #People
Sex is nice and pleasure is good for you.
-- Dossie Easton

#Sex #Nice #Pleasure
Do remember: your sexiness is about how you feel, not how you look.
-- Dossie Easton

#Looks #How You Feel #Remember
We believe that every relationship is unique unto itself, and thus even an attempt to think in types and forms is not going to express the essential truths of what happens when we love people.
-- Dossie Easton

#Believe #Unique #Thinking
The cultural ban on having sex with your friends is an inevitable offshoot of a societal belief that the only acceptable reason to have sex is to lead to a monogamous marriagelike relationship.
-- Dossie Easton

#Sex #Belief #Reason
Bottoms are alchemists who magically transform pain into sex.
-- Dossie Easton

#Sex #Pain #Alchemist

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