Two children dance around the Christmas tree. In fact, they are a young man and a mature woman, who both feel like children again. Together, they have found love, despite their age difference.

"Once upon a time, there was a woman who knew that love knows no age."

The notion of age difference

Whatever your current age, you have all your ages within you. From before you were born to your current age. Almost like the growth rings of a tree. All your lived ages are present within you right now. As human beings, we have the ability to connect with our own emotions, inner objects and selected aspects of our selves and of all our lived ages. This ability is also reflected in our capacity for empathy with others.

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Everything outside us is represented inside us as inner objects. Object formation helps us sort and deal with everything we sense. For example, your parents, your children and your family are all represented inside you, as inner objects. So is everything else around you at this moment, including, for example, the clothes you are wearing. If you close your eyes and connect, internally, with your mother or someone else who is close to you, I am certain you can almost sense their scent, even if they are not in the room with you. You probably also know what the person would think about this or that. That is, roughly speaking, how object formation works.

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