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Your Marriage is Mortal, It can die. You Can Keep It Alive
The truth is your marriage, my friend’s marriage and my marriage is mortal. They can all die, which is why we must be vigilant in protecting our marriages. We must cultivate them.
When things are going ravishingly well, we must work at it. When dry and difficult times come we must work at it.
Admitting that our bodies are mortal does not mean that we want to die prematurely. The same is true for marriages. When I was married I made a promise to stay that way until death separated us and I meant it.
Denying that my marriage is mortal doesn’t make that promise any stronger. It does not make my marriage stronger, in fact I think it makes it more vulnerable.
Joe Knows. The Vacation Question
Here's our first answer for Joe Knows. The original post can be found here. Joe Knows is your chance to ask a therpist any question you want to ask but don't want to pay to find the answer. Here’s how it works: People submit a question. A question is chosen at random by someone associated…
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Harnessing the Opportunity of a New Year to Shape Your Future Self
It seemed like such an easy answer, but the way he posed it, I knew something was up. He said good, not great.
What he was really asking was how will you measure your life? I love this question; it can terrify me depending on the day.
Square or Circle: Finding Peace in a world that can feel out of control
If we want to find true satisfaction, we will have to start with controlling the things we control and accepting the fact that we don’t control everything. Energy spent trying to control things we can’t control is energy wasted.
Points to Ponder (100 Words or less)
The sensible alternative to overparenting is not less parenting but better parenting. The alternative to permissiveness is not to be more controlling but more responsive. And the alternative to narcissism is not conformity but reflective rebelliousness. In short, if we want to raise psychologically healthy and spirited children, we’ll need to start by questioning the…
The Expectations Trap | Psychology Today
Attuned to disappointment and confused about its source, we wind up discarding perfectly good relationships. People work themselves up over "the ordinary problems of marriage, for which, by the way, they usually fail to see their own contributions," via www.psychologytoday.com This is a long and interesting article. I think the money quote is quoted above….