Eric Fromm distinguishes between "falling in love," which can be short lived, and "standing in love," which involves action to nurture a relationship, and allows a relationship to sustain itself and flourish in the long term.

"Acknowledge their healthy human emotion, validate it as normal, mirror it back to them" Here is great advice from twentieth-century English pediatrician and psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott for what the "good enough" parent should do when a child expresses emotions such as anger, jealousy, disappointment, or even sadness: Acknowledge their healthy human emotion, validate it as normal, mirror it back to them, help corregulate their nervous system so that they don't feel flooded

We can use our free will and our ability to take conscious control, to choose in what kind of state we are going to live in. Whatever we chose to focus on expands. Whatever you choose to focus on, you create your personal world. You can choose the world that you live in. You don't want to live in a world that constantly affirms bitterness, resentmentment and frustration, or lack. Instead we need to align ourselves to the inner dominate energy frequency that we desire--one of

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." Helen Keller I found this quote in the book "Option B" by Sheryl Sandberg, former COO of Facebook, which is a an incredible book for anyone who is dealing with loss or having difficulty coping with disappointment with something in their lives.