“Don’t trade long-term happiness for short-term pleasure.” I add that phrase to my notes. It’s a good mantra to remember. “Think of intimacy as a fire,” he continues. “The more logs you add to it, the bigger it gets. And the bigger it gets, the less you want to throw water on it.” “My problem before was that the bigger the fire got, the more I wanted to throw water on it. I was so scared it would consume me.”
