"...Every man should be forced to take his 40th year off. The vast majority of men don't have a life - they pretend to have one. In reality they are lonely, emotionally timid, and miserably, compulsively competitive. One of the main reasons they never get out of this tragic state is that they are enslaved by soulless jobs and careers that lead them to put their lives on hold until retirement. Of course, when this arrives it is too late. While they work they are too busy to think and therefore they have empty lives where they never develop a rich and sustaining inner life....'Our marriages fail, our kids hate us, we die of stress and on the way we destroy the world.' "
"His inability to touch me the way I needed to be touched sent our marriage into a downward spiral. I became bitter, I was alone on top of a mountain, completely isolated. Life is too short to feel unfulfilled. My need for touch is the foundation of how I experience acceptance."
