"You cannot force someone to accept an expression of love. You can only offer it. If it is not accepted, you must respect the other person's decision."

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The kind of caring that the client-centered therapist desires to achieve is a gullible caring, in which clients are accepted as they say they are, not with a lurking suspicion in the therapist's mind that they may, in fact, be otherwise. This attitude is not stupidity on the therapist's part; it is the kind of attitude that is most likely to lead to trust.

— Carl Rogers