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Embrace the idea of daytight compartments! I’ll tell you why it is important, urgent and, even, essential if you want to have a healthy, happy relationship. Twenty years ago, my counseling practice was filled with people with life-threatening diagnoses and their families. It was wonderful to share the journey with them and watch the...
I was on Facebook this morning reading the Mother’s Day messages. Several spoke of their sense of pain and loss that their adult children were no longer communicating with them. It was particular pain of the phone not ringing and the post box empty...
Every day, in every relationship–even the one with have with ourselves, we are negotiating all the time. Wouldn’t it be wise to hone your skills? When I’m working with couples or workplace teams, I see it so clearly. They have not learned or honed...
Whether you are a man or a woman doesn’t matter, but it certainly matters if you are a doormat! A doormat is a person who doesn’t take a stand in life for his or her values, vision, purpose, beliefs, desires or worth. They are...
WOMEN! Are you with a man who won’t protect or profess you? This is a guy who lets other people speak to him about you in a negative manner without setting them straight and/or a guy who will not tell the world that he...
It leaves you with that yucky feeling, the feeling of just being sucker punched. It leaves you shaking your head in disbelief. It’s like a nightmare where you try to run away and all you ever find are cul-de-sacs with no escape. It’s crazy-making....
BULLIES! Just the word is enough to get our heart rate–and our back–up! We can easily identify the bullies who hit, threaten, stand in our way, or throw us around. What we need to be able to recognize is when we are actually living...
Oh, we all like to be right, don’t we? Even if we keep the smug “I told you so” to ourselves, we like being right. We need relationship help for sure when things deteriorate in your relationship to just wanting to be right. In...
Oh, the flying fingers that seal our fates! Relationships can be enriched by the loving text messages that let others know we care. But, let those fingers fly when you are angry and you’ve done something that may never go away. Not only that,...
There is a good reason that we have one mouth and two ears. The body seems to be telling us that listening twice as much as talking is a good idea. Now, sure, I’m making that up, but it is a very wise...
A great enemy of loving relationships is that old phrase: “taken for granted.” It’s a sure sign of needing relationship help. Many folks who have been in relationship for a while are well-served by stopping to think about whether or not they might be...
Were you ever taught to say “Sorry” even when you weren’t? Or, even worse, were you taught to say “Sorry” when you had nothing to be sorry about? It started very early for most of us. We were taught that other people count...
Do you have a partner, boss or co-worker who you would often–operant word, often–describe as crazy-making? Does s/he frequently seem to give with one hand and grab it back with the other? This can be a description of the emotional and verbal behavior of a...
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