““People have to learn to listen and listen and listen and listen until they finally get it that their partner has their own inner world - that you like apples and your partner likes oranges and that it's okay to like oranges. One of my axioms is that if you want to be in a relationship, you have to get it that you live with another person. That person isn't you. She's not merged with you. She is not your picture of who she is. She doesn't live inside your find. She doesn't know what you're thinking, and you don't know what she's thinking. So you have to back off and move from reactivity to curiosity. You have to ask questions. You have to listen." (Hendrix) (p. 271)””