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It was with a sinking heart that the newly arrived ambassador from Seressa grasped that the Emperor Rodolfo, famously eccentric, was serious about an experiment in court protocol. The emperor liked experiments, everyone knew that.
Children of Earth and Sky
Guy Gavriel Kay
This response is common among those who experience love as denial of one’s own needs in order to attend to the needs of the beloved.
Nonviolent Communication
Marshall B. Rosenberg
It sounds odd that you could lose touch with your own self. How could that be possible? You are you; how could you become less you by being in contact with somebody else? But we receive data from our senses and emotional selves, which can be overruled by data we get from other people. A classic example is if you say, ‘I’m a bit sad,’ and another person goes, ‘No, you’re not, you’re fine. You’re doing so well.’ You might then think, my point of view is not legitimate. They are right, I’m fine. When actually, it might be important for you to step back and acknowledge that things are difficult.
Conversations on Love
Natasha Lunn
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