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

by Lori Gottlieb

had parents who acknowledged their mistakes and took responsibility for them and taught you as a child to acknowledge your mistakes and learn from them too, then ruptures won’t feel so cataclysmic in your adult relationships.

You will heal and self-repair and sign up for another relationship full of its own ruptures and repairs.

Take a risk. Maybe our pasts don’t define us but inform us.

“Almost is always the hardest, isn’t it?”

I wrote about how sometimes we have the key to a better life but need somebody to show us where we left the damn thing.

Most of what we say to ourselves we’d never say to people we love or care about, like our friends or children.

Nobody is going to save you,