“A man cannot tell whether a woman is in love with him or his security blanket until she is financially and psychologically independent enough to leave. Until a woman has learned how to leave, even she cannot be sure she has learned to love.”

— Warren Farrell

Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 182.

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