<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452188" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Just As You Are (Rev.)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love isn’t idyllic tender romance, it is an ideal, <br>a dream; while unhappy relations are built <br>on dependency, happy relations associate <br>self-esteem, respect and dignity <br> <br>Your happiness derives from work and sacrifice <br>ignoring needs for deference, freedom and joy, <br>such self-sacrifice without appreciation makes <br>you feel alone and confused, does not teach <br> <br>Manners commanding respect; love ideally <br>as noble aspirations, joy and integrity has to <br>be learned, it does not derive glibly from <br>what we covetously look upon<br> <br>Love is a perspective, an ability to project on <br>all things beautiful aspects; service does not <br>beget love and harmony; I cannot accept the <br>same emotional abuse you are used to<br> <br>I offer you my sisterly love as affection, not an <br>exploitation, will spoil you rotten as a beloved <br>sister, NOT as dependent or helper, I love <br>you because you are worthy<br> <br>I honour your dignity and abhor it when <br>others don’t honour you too; I love you <br>within the perspective of a wonderful <br>sister – just as you are…</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Margaret+Alice+Second">Margaret Alice Second</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452188" data-title="Just As You Are (Rev.) de Margaret Alice Second" data-description="Love isn’t idyllic tender romance, it is an ideal, a dream; while unhappy relations are built on dependency, happy relations associate self-esteem, respect and dignity Your happiness derives from work and sacrifice ignoring needs for defe..."></div> </div> </div>

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