RULE 68
Respect privacy
‘I want to be alone . . .’ Each and every one of us has a God-given right to respect, privacy, trust, honesty. But of all of them, it is privacy that is the most sacrosanct, inviolate, untouchable.
You must respect your partner’s privacy as they must yours. If you don’t, you have to question all those other things – trust, respect, honesty – as well. If they are all missing, what you’ve got there isn’t a relationship and quite frankly I don’t know what it is, except that it belongs in the morgue. So we’ll assume you have a good and healthy relationship. This means you have respect for your partner’s privacy. In all areas.
If they choose not to discuss something with you, then that is their right and you do not have the ...
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