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For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.

— Mike Murdock

The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.

— Karen Salmansohn

In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.

— Zygmunt Bauman

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.

— Georg Simmel

The most special relationships, in my experience, are based on a combination of trust and mutual respect.

— Charles Kennedy

When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

— Barbara De Angelis

At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment - this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another.

— Tullian Tchividjian

All our relationships are person-to-person. They involve people seeing, hearing, touching, and speaking to each other; they involve sharing goods; and they involve moral values like generosity and compassion.

— Brendan Myers

✗Opposing Perspectives

When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.

— Ram Dass