One of the tricks to keeping hope alive and staying open to possibilities when life has treated you unfairly is to know that in almost every situation it’s not personal. No matter how difficult, how upsetting, how much you wish things were different… In almost […]
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Resentments are born from large or small events when we feel like we’ve been treated unfairly. Someone slights us or does something so grossly mean that we feel blindsided–and we hold onto that hurt, sometimes for years. There seem to be two kinds of resentments:
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Lying to to yourself (especially when you can’t see it) is one of the biggest obstacles to truly connecting with the people in your life. Lying to yourself either about how things really are or how you think they are (when they’re not that way)
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Most people think that the worst kind of lying is when someone else lies to you… They do something really bad to you and they lie about it… *Having an affair *Stealing money from you *Taking credit for something that shouldn’t be theirs to take
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How do you weather the storms in your relationship? We all have them in one way or another but… What do you do when you’re in the middle of them or they’re so frequent you wonder if your relationship will survive? A few days ago
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When people say they’re in a stormy relationship, there’s usually a lot of finger-pointing and the blame game is alive and well. They look at each other as the problem, pulling back and keeping their hearts closed. It’s like they go through life putting up
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Penny and Kyle had been dating for several years, had moved in together but it seemed to her that he had checked out of the relationship long ago. They didn’t have fun together the way they used to and it seemed to her that they’d
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Most people think that make-or-break moments in relationships and life are always the big “Oh Sh_t” moments… The getting struck by lightning kind of realizations and discussions that rock your world. Make-or-break moments can be those turn-your-world-upside-down kind of events and your response to what
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When faced with be right or be happy, most of us usually get stuck. Here are 3 ways to “win” when you’re struggling with this dilemma…
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Every single person on the face of the earth has at one time or another thought the worst about their partner. So many people want to stop thinking the worst in their relationship and yet they continue to do it time and time again. By
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