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It is very important. Critical. Mutual respect and commitment to a healthy, productive relationship are the only things to trump it. Yet, they are also tied together and rely on each other.
I have been in relationships that were unhealthy in one or another of these aspects and it eventually affected all three.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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