“Honoring your word is the fiber from which trust is built.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“If no one has boundaries…how can there be any transgression?” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“The more judgmental a person is the sadder they are.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“Controlling others is the cornerstone of dysfunctional families.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“Change is hard, difficult, painful, and often messy” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“Boundary violations are deeply experienced.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“We ardently desire to take down our masks and say to the world, “This is who I am…and I am okay.” This… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“The more dysfunctional, the more some family members seek to control the behavior of others.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“People who are unwilling to talk about deep personal issues do not trust their own emotions.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“People pay a dear price when not dealing with the powerful emotions.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“The strange part about a person’s lack of trust is that it often comes from not trusting themselves.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“Change will not successfully happen unless the emotional component is solved.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“Teenagers can spot hypocrisy a mile away and here I was telling them how to cope when they witnessed the shambles of… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“Children naturally believe without question and absorb knowledge at an incredible rate; since there is no other frame of reference; they believe… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“When this low self-worth is hidden, one can understand why the person becomes hypersensitive to the opinions of others and has a… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“Black and white thinking limits understanding and feedback, two necessary ingredients for successful resolution in creative conflict and successful understanding.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“...the state of perfection is an elusive goal; demanding something so obscure as almost unattainable and can become a compulsive, crazy making… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“Mature adults gravitate toward new values and understandings, not just rehashing and blind acceptance of past patterns and previous learning. This is… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“Under this aura of perfection he knows how flawed he really is but his intact denial system keeps this awareness suppressed in… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“This is what we desire in intimate relationships but this deep connection is often so frightful that most do not take advantage… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“Many people look at their past and bemoan their mistakes. Those errors in judgment, behavior, hurting others, and the wrong decisions may… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“No one escapes some degree of chaos for it is so ever prevalent; it is the human experience. This realization does not… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“REAL people do not have to lie, exaggerate, or brag for they are self-contained in self-understanding and acceptance of themselves. REAL people… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“The truth is, we tend to train people how we want to be treated. If others know you have wishy-washy boundaries then… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“The key problem I encounter working with wounded, depressed, and unhappy people is a lack of connection…starting from a disconnection from themselves… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“Acceptance is the most beautiful word in any language; this beautiful concept can only exist when you allow other people to be… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“Many of the habits of dysfunctional families use are not from the lack of love but are the result of fear. Knowing… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“Since children from dysfunctional families are so good at judging others, they also judge themselves finding themselves unacceptable when compared to others,… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“It is very difficult to develop a proper sense of self-esteem in a dysfunctional family. Having very little self-worth, looking at one’s… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“Being judgmental is a form of attack keeping others off balance.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“They sought the pain they knew so well and called it love.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“We violated each other’s boundaries with verbal missiles of anger disguised in the pretense of “just kidding.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share
“If no one has boundaries…how can there be any transgression?” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share
“Being judgmental is a form of attack keeping others off balance.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share
“Mature adults gravitate toward new values and understandings, not just rehashing and blind acceptance of past patterns and previous learning. This is an ongoing… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share
“The greater the pain associated with love, the more likely a person is to be attracted to others who will inflict this pain…for isn’t… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share
“...the state of perfection is an elusive goal; demanding something so obscure as almost unattainable and can become a compulsive, crazy making squirrel-on-a-wheel way… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share
“Change is hard, difficult, painful, and often messy” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share
“People who are unwilling to talk about deep personal issues do not trust their own emotions.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share
“People pay a dear price when not dealing with the powerful emotions.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share
“This is what we desire in intimate relationships but this deep connection is often so frightful that most do not take advantage of the… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share
“Honoring your word is the fiber from which trust is built.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share
“Teenagers can spot hypocrisy a mile away and here I was telling them how to cope when they witnessed the shambles of my own… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share
“Our parents were our first gods. If parents are loving, nurturing, and kind, this becomes the child’s definition of the creator. If parents were… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share
“Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share
“Many people look at their past and bemoan their mistakes. Those errors in judgment, behavior, hurting others, and the wrong decisions may be what… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share
