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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Eavesdropping: Robert Firestone on The Fear of Intimacy

"Many individuals experience feelings of longing and desperation they mistake for love. They fail to make a distinction between emotional hunger, which is a strong need caused by emotional deprivation in childhood, and feelings of genuine love and concern...

Close contact with an emotionally hungry person has the opposite effect of nurturance: the more time spent with this person, the more debilitating the effect."

Dr. Robert Firestone in The Fear of Intimacy

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