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"Relationships are elegantly SIMPLE". Our interview with expert Dr. Stan Tatkin

Rikki and Jimmy on Relationships

CHAPTER

The Importance of Structure in Relationships

There are entitlements in love relationships that there aren't in other relationships. Attachment is a biological mandate that nature has built in, sort of nature's glue that holds us together. It's the I can't quit you biology that we confuse for love. Once I get attached to you and I start to get into my fantasies about what could happen, I'm loathe to stand up for principles because that could mean the end of the relationship. And now I'm invested in not losing anything. We think we're family and we're not, we're strangers conning each other instantly.

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