"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you'. Mature love says 'I need you because I love you'."Erich Fromm (1900-1980, psychologist; from 'The Art of Loving', originally published 1957).
Further Thoughts
Eric Fromm's book 'The Art of Loving' is about all our relationships between people, not just sexual relationships. He also states:
"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence".and the following quotation points to an aspect of teaching which goes beyond techniques and also defies being measured:
"Whilst we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given by the simple presence of a mature, loving person."
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