"When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.“


-Barbara de Angelis

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When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

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