“Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."”

— Erich Fromm, book The Art of Loving

Variant: Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love say: 'i need you because I love you.
Source: The Art of Loving (1956), Ch. 2

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German social psychologist and psychoanalyst 1900–1980

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