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"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance, if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."

SOMERSET MAUGHAM

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Development and Self-Fulfillment in Romantic Relationships

Studies about personal development and romantic passion have been conducted in order to understand the correlation between the two. It's been shown that shared personal development increases the passion of both partners and the relationship's quality.

However, if only one partner endures p...

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Inequality in Romantic Relationships

Looking at the short-term effects of inequality in relationships, it doesn't seem to do much harm as it often increases sexual desire.

However, unequal relationships will soon be laced with contempt, leading to divorce and extramarital affairs for both partners.

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Envy in Romantic Relationships

Envy in Romantic Relationships

Differences in romantic relationships are inevitable. Any person involved in a relationship has experienced envy in one way or another, may it be for a short amount of time or chronically.

Envy is the experience of feeling undeservedly inferior and this feeling is particularly damaging...

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The Harmful Effect of Competition in Romantic Relationships

In the marriage between esteemed novelist, Jonathan Franzen and his wife Kathryn Chetkovich, who was a writer herself, had experienced envy.

Her envy towards the success of her husband led to her writing an essay about how envy had affected their marriage, even to the point of punishing Fr...

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"Be with someone who wants to see you grow."

TONY PAYNE

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Profound Love

Profound love involves kindness, generosity, and sympathetic joy for the beloved's success.

We will go through changes throughout our lives and if we see our partners as "above" or "beneath" us it will eventually become problematic because this places an unnecessary comparison in the relat...

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It is naive to think that we will become happy if we continue being controlled by our selfish nature. Competition and achievement for personal gain do not lead to happiness.

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Overconfident leaders

Nowadays, we tend to believe that individuals showing too great self-confidence behave this way mainly because they are more qualified than others to get a leadership position. 

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Discontentment with the self: changing the course

  1. You can always change. You're the only person who gets to decide who you become.
  2. Change your habits, not your goals.
  3. Take comfort in the idea that we live in a society where we love seeing people changing for the better.
  4. It's never too late to change. As long as y...

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