However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sally is my wife, but not my chattel or my property.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
But I've married a deeply sensible person who is extremely good at talking me down from my various ledges, and who takes care of me in a billion ways.
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
And I'm as attached to my wife as anybody can be to another human being.
There is no other person on the face of this planet that I would rather sit and talk to than my wife.
Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
A good friend is my nearest relation.
All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends.