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Creating Love: The Next Great Stage of Growth QUOTES

Creating Love: The Next Great Stage of Growth QUOTES

1 " Minerva never knew she had other choices. She was lost in a mystified relationship with her father substitute bosses at work. In always trying to do the right thing and please her bosses, she was reenacting her original relationship with her insensitive, unavailable father. Many people reenact their mystified source relationships at work. Their offices become exact replicas of their family of origin. I will have more to say about this later. "

― John Bradshaw , Creating Love: The Next Great Stage of Growth

2 " will suggest that these cultural rules created a deficient form of love, and that even with the best intentions our parents often confused love with what we would now call abuse. "

― John Bradshaw , Creating Love: The Next Great Stage of Growth

3 " Laing spent his life exposing the destructive identity confusion that results when we become acceptable to others only by denying our own truth. He called this identity confusion mystification. "

― John Bradshaw , Creating Love: The Next Great Stage of Growth