Mature love says: "I love you because I need you." The mature man says: "I need you because I love you" (Erich Fromm)

in philosophy •  7 years ago 

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With this phrase, Erich Fromm speaks first of a toxic love, in which one of the actors is dependent on the other. On the other hand, in the second case, Fromm refers to the love of someone mature, who wants to be with a person because he is fine with her, not because he needs her.

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