NORWOODGROEP FORUM

12 januari

"Pain is our wisest teacher knocking at our door."

Pijn is onze wijste leraar die aan onze deur klopt.

11 januari "It is an act of irresponsible self-indulgence to cite our childhood histories as excuses for any of our present behaviors, attitudes, or qualities that are less than healthy. The difficult circumstances and unhappy effects of those childhood years provide clues to the very condition...

10 januari

"None of us has invented a new variety of horrible secret or terrible loss. The secrets we keep keep us from recovering."

Niemand van ons heeft een nieuw soort vreselijk geheim of vreselijk verlies uitgevonden. De dingen die we geheim houden weerhouden ons ervan te herstellen.

9 januari "If we want to stop loving too much, first we change how we act, then how we think, and finally how we feel. If we wait until we feel differently before we behave differently, we will never change, never recover." Als we willen stoppen met te zeer liefhebben, veranderen we eerst ...

8 januari "You need to recover from loving too much for your own sake; but when you stop suffering, your recovery may be so appealing that others watching may begin to pursue their own. Recovery can be just as contagious as addiction and coaddiction are." Herstellen van te zeer liefhebben ...

7 januari "We begin by becoming willing to channel the energy and effort that we formerly spent on trying to change someone else toward changing ourselves instead." We beginnen door de bereidheid te ontwikkelen onze energie en inspanning die we eerst besteedden aan het veranderen van ieman...

6 januari "Like compulsive eaters, we who love too much must learn to do in a sane and balanced way what we once did obsessively. Because eating and relating both are necessary aspects of normal living, there is no clear-cut behavioral definition for sobriety. Recovery is not, therefore, a blac...

5 januari "Being women who love too much, we operate as though love, attention, and approval don't count unless we are able to extract them from men who, because of their own problems and preoccupations, are unable to readily give them to us." Als vrouwen die te zeer liefhebben gedragen we...

4 januari

"Whenever we attempt to force a solution to another's problem, we are loving too much."

Wanneer we proberen een ander een oplossing voor zijn probleem op te dringen, hebben we te zeer lief.

3 januari "There is such a thing as making one or two foolish choices in one's love life, but there is also such a thing as the very real disease of relationship addiction." Er is zoiets als een of twee keer een dwaze fout maken in je liefdesleven, maar er is ook zoiets als de echte ziekte...

2 januari "Loving turns into loving too much when your partner is inappropriate, uncaring, or unavailable, and yet you cannot give him up - in fact, you want him, you need him even more." Houden van wordt te zeer liefhebben wanneer je partner ongepast, onverschillig, of onbereikbaar is, en...

1 januari

"When being in love means being in pain, we are loving too much."

Als liefhebben betekent pijn lijden, hebben we te zeer lief.

31 december

"If you are truly on the path of recovery from loving too much, know that you are a miracle."

Als je werkelijk op de weg zit naar genezing van te zeer liefhebben, weet dan dat je een wonder bent.

30 december "Although every woman reading this book may have in common the tendency to love too much, nevertheless each of us has her own particular pattern for doing so. For clues to your personal style, consider the common themes expressed in your favorite work of fiction, your favorite film,...

29 december "Life's unfolding events may be welcome or unwelcome, but whether they are fortunate or unfortunate can be discerned only in the fullness of time." De zich ontvouwende gebeurtenissen in het leven kunnen welkom of onwelkom zijn, maar of ze gelukkig of ongelukkig zijn kan alleen ...