Commitment | Desire | Impact | Intimacy | Purpose | Responsibility | Self | Understanding | Value

WITHOUT COMMITMENT
Commitment is costly, it increases our vulnerability to hurt, constrains our options, sets limits on our experience, and means that we have to accept whatever the limitations of the other people are. Yet we seem to need commitment even more than intimacy. Without these anchorages, our identity, whatever our ‘self’ is, is uncertain, too fluid, and has to link to reality . . . Without commitment one is free from obligation, but without obligation there is too little that matters. Judith Bardwick