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You have indeed. Active emotional warmth and its manifestations on your part will now hasten complete recovery immeasurably. Such measures alone can make up for any mistakes you see that might be made. Without them no other correct measures are enough. He does not need, nor want, to smother you emotionally. He fears that you fear this.

If he feels this is withdrawn his secure confidence is shattered and his energy dwindles. In his case however there is no danger that you would be emotionally smothered, for he has also this love of work and isolation, and feeling for his and your independence.

(“Have I been concerned about this emotional smothering bit?”)

[...] Habitual muscle strain is involved, that smothers joints and does not give them room to move.

[...] You felt it could be smothering, for you sensed the reasons behind her smothering love for her sons. [...]

[...] There are various schools and religions that try, in distorted terms, to express the self’s validity, but the distortions have smothered the basic validity of the teachings.

[...] The high peaks are to some extent smothered, or even go unnoticed. [...]

Once they are recognized then they can be met and dealt with, but they cannot be intellectualized away, and denied while smothering them and pretending that they do not exist.

[...] Later, conflicting beliefs often smother such earlier attitudes, so that by the time children have grown into adults they actually hold almost an opposite set of hypotheses. [...]

[...] Ultimately a completed or finished God, or All That Is, would end up smothering His creation. [...]

[...] He cannot smother the person and cultivate the flower of his talent. [...]

[...] The fact is, however, that many such people use drugs instead as a kind of chemical blanket that has a tendency to smother rather than relieve.

[...] He is at this point in a better position than someone with an overweight problem, in that the joints do not have much weight bearing upon them, or fat to smother their mobility.

[...] (Florence tried to smother a cough and Seth boomed out.) You may cough to your heart’s content. [...]

[...] From you he needed to learn some discipline, but not to be smothered by it, and this is also extremely important.

[...] His abilities will smother if he applies too much discipline.

Your educational systems, however, for all of their idealism, have largely ended up (pause) smothering the natural individual bents and leanings of children, and overemphasized instead the cultural organization. [...]

[...] She is being smothered, you see, by the hopelessness that surrounds her, as well as by her own hopelessness. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Carried to extremes this could smother the spontaneous spark that is the heart of each painting.

They may even seek the experience in order to put their own lives in a different, larger perspective, many such people are not fully aware of such decisions, and so many face-saving psychological devices are used by the individual, and certainly by society, to smother the recognition of such unofficial motivation. [...]

[...] When he becomes overly concerned with ideas of responsibility to use his talent, then the love beneath them is smothered to some extent and denied its flow. [...]

[...] Do not smother them with opaqueness.

[...] Instead, while carrying the belief in man’s potential, Christianity smothered the thesis beneath a slag heap of old guilt. [...]