Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

by Lori Gottlieb

the pull toward that feeling of “home” makes what they want as adults hard to disentangle from what they experienced as children. They have an uncanny attraction to people who share the characteristics of a parent who in some way hurt them.

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

The price of loving so deeply is feeling so deeply—but it’s also a gift, the gift of being alive.