Relationships do not happen in abstraction. They need a place; they need a centre, even a home.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's an entry point to any relationship.
I have a hard time with abstractions. I always go to the personal.
Relationships are full of compromises.
Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.
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.
Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections.
Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.