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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

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership.

— Gary Zukav

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

Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship.

— Mariella Frostrup

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

Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together.

— Helen Fisher

In good relationships, we are happy to grow as the other person becomes part of us and who we are.

— Miroslav Volf

As individual people, embedded in our daily lives, of course we're interested in what makes one person different from another. We've got to hire one person and not another, marry one person and not another.

— Steven Pinker

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

— Charles Kennedy

✗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

I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.

— Julia Roberts