Above All Else, Love

Amy Rauch, PsyD

Love. Above all else, love. “If we want to know what loving is all about, we have to imagine what it’s like to live inside their skins.” -Frederick Buechner.

ENGAGE in conversation with one another...ask honest questions and eagerly await the answers. The marriage experts, the Gottmans, call this in-depth knowledge of one another’s world —a Love Map. We love better when we can empathize deeply...the quote continues. “We have to try to listen to not just the words they speak, but to the words they don’t speak. We have to try to feel what it’s like to be who they are.”