Enmeshed Mother Quotes & Sayings

I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb. — Hyman George Rickover

There's a critical insight in all this for those of us who want to learn to be more influential. The best persuaders become the best through pre-suasion - the process of arranging for recipients to be receptive to a message before they encounter it. To persuade optimally, then, it's necessary to pre-suade optimally. But how?

In part, the answer involves an essential but poorly appreciated tenet of all communication: what we present first changes the way people experience what we present to them next. — Robert B. Cialdini

I covered his thumbprint with my thumb and considered for the first time that Papa might have been more than just old pictures - old, repeated stories. — Wally Lamb

But I couldn't say any of this yet. No one answer felt it could contain anything close to the truth about her. My thoughts of my mother were wild chaos, I didn't know how to tell him we'd been enmeshed for as long as I could remember. — Aspen Matis

What is love anyway but a hunger no meal can satisfy? — Kameron Hurley

I'd love to wrap myself inside your sadness and pretend it is mine — Amy Reed