Sometimes a single sentence, a one-liner, aimed at your heart, teaches you more than a book. Couples Therapy on Showtime is a vault of these lines, from both sides of the coffee table. Over four seasons, we get to see what happens when people are in enough pain to drop their guard and say what they really mean. Or maybe even find out what they feel as the words leave their mouths. Here are the 20 one-liners that hit the hardest—reminders of just how difficult and redeeming it can be to be human and in love.
- If you love someone, you treat them with respect.
- People are often speaking quite clearly if you quiet down your own noise enough to listen. Listening is a never ending hold your horses.
- You’re stuck on a story that’s preventing you from trusting.
- When you lead with vulnerability a real conversation is possible.
- You’re speaking from desperation but it’s coming out as intimidation and aggression and that creates the opposite of what you’re needing. Tame your dragon.
- It’s history grabbing on to you and not letting you live your current life.
- Do you want to hurt the person when you’re hurt, or do you want to try another way?
- There’s a way that you’re keeping yourself somewhat removed from what is being repeatedly said to you.
- You’re not aware of how hurtful your self-protection can be.
- Your partner can’t be a stand in for a bunch of other people, a bunch of other abandonment.
- The childhood personality trying to defend itself doesn’t care about the current partner.
- Why don’t you hold your feelings, and let new information in? Is it more important for you to express what’s upsetting you or to understand what’s going on?
- You need creative energy to figure out how to find each other.
- You coddling is preventing you both from growing. Say what you’re really thinking.
- Practice saying “it hurt my feelings.”
- There’s going to have to be some sort of emotional rewiring now that I’m with someone I can trust.
- People have way more capacity to bear difficult truths than they trust.
- They find this incredible spirit and do better than the cards they were dealt.
- People who go through the transition of a new paradigm, they suffer. It’s not easy. There has to be a deep love and want to do the work. You have to like the person enough to change something about yourself. Something fundamental. You have to really love your partner and want the relationship in a way that moves you to transcend yourself.
- When you let down your fear, things can change beyond your capacity to even imagine.
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