“Positive, affirming relationships bring great pleasure while poor relationship brings great pain. Greatest happiness found in good relationships, greatest pain found in bad relationships”
“Random intermittent positive reinforcement can be found in gambling... and bad relationships.”
“In “America the extroverted,” relationships are good, and even if they are very bad, they are better than no relationship. Introverts don’t think this way. Many of us want and have great relationships, but we generally prefer “no relationship” to a bad one. Quality matters. We conserve our relationship resources, because we know they are limited.”
“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. ”
“The greatest comfort in this life is having a close relationship with God.”
“The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship.”