You have special ties that bind you.
"Beautiful flames," she said, "can destroy so many things -- prison walls that hold you, stitches that bind you fast".
Tomorrow's lunar eclipse highlights the ties that bind you to significant others, and how they might be adjusted for a more empathic, forgiving partnership.
But you weren't there in 1983, when Mr. Perry, the rock idol of my youth, was crooning the chorus to "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)." "Some day, love will find you/ Break those chains that bind you".
"If you have any sort of ties that bind you to one particular spot on the planet, it diminishes your chances to absolutely zero," warns Kay Schneitz, who knows from personal experience the difficulty of being half of a dual-career couple.
When the physical umbilical cord gets cut at birth, you are just beginning to develop your mental and emotional umbilical cord -- the invisible ties that bind you to your family's dynamic way of being with each other.
It's as if the lights have gone up and all the intricate, unspoken threads that bind you together are revealed for what they've always been: suffocating and objectively mad.
I wanted people to feel that it's possible to break free of the things that bind you, this past, these demons, that you can break free and be washed clean.
The good news: Overcoming approval addiction is easier than you realize, and once you do, you're free of the psychological chains that bind you from ever experiencing world-class success, happiness and most importantly the freedom to live life on your own terms.
