Leo TolstoyIf you love me as you say you do, ' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.
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All those who love you as you say they do can make it so that you are at peace. If you truly love someone, the way to make them happy is to make them feel safe. It’s very simple really. It’s like if you are in an argument with your parents and they always yell at you or get mad at you, would you be able to keep your cool? And if they were yelling at the wrong thing, how would you feel? No matter what you did, they would be mad because it was the wrong thing.
It’s the same with loving people; if their love is not safe then it can’t be healthy. For example, if your parents tell your boyfriend that he should break up with your because he doesn’t treat you right, but he doesn’t want to stop seeing you because he loves you, but he also knows they don’t treat him right either, then one day when the boyfriend gets tired of his parents yelling at him and wants to break up with them but his parents want him to stay with them and argue “but I love him!” told him “Well I love my kids more than I love him, so I will never let him leave. He wants out but I won’t let him go.
He’s not worth it just like he is not worth me being treated poorly by my own family!”
Source: Anna Karenina
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