Family Interaction

Relationship Help: Do You Have to Say “I’m Sorry” When You’re Not?

Relationship Help: Do You Have to Say “I’m Sorry” When You’re Not?

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 more than we do. We were taught that we’re supposed...

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Relationship Help: Do You Have a Crazy-Making Partner or Co-Worker?

Relationship Help: Do You Have a Crazy-Making Partner or Co-Worker?

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 passive-aggressive person. My friend, Brenda, was telling me about her...

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Relationship Help: I say “Potatoes” & S/he says “Petahtuhs!”

Relationship Help: I say “Potatoes” & S/he says “Petahtuhs!”

Do you think you might need relationship help because your partner sometimes seems like  an alien? Does it seem that the person with whom you are trying to communicate is from a different planet, or speaks an entirely foreign language to you?   Well, I don’t know about the planet part, the language difference...

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Relationship Problems: Make This the Holiday Season You Want it to Be!

Relationship Problems: Make This the Holiday Season You Want it to Be!

Relationship problems and the holidays? It happens. Oh, we so hope everyone will be different when we visit them this holiday season…especially the difficult, fearful and judgmental ones! In fits of wishful thinking, we hope that any growth we have achieved during the past year will have, by osmosis, been passed along to them. ...

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Need Relationship Help? Take a moment for this!

Sometimes we are so mired down in the details of our lives that we forget to lift our heads and see the bigger picture. Today, I just wanted to give you something to warm your heart and lift your spirit…as well as your head. For there to be peace in our relationships, in our...

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Family Relationships: Whose story is true?

Family Relationships: Whose story is true?

I just returned from a visit to family and friends in Canada. In twelve days, I spent time with many people in five cities. And stories abounded! Life stories, troubling incidents, and shared memories. The one unifying factor in all the stories was that everyone who experienced the story remembered it differently.  Some of...

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