The emotional world of the elderly parent is continually threatened with impoverishment by the loss of siblings, friends and spouse. These losses are compounded by the loss of social functions. Loss of a familiar world and its bonds and loss of recognition aggravate the situation. These losses hurt far more than the pain endured by [...]
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Elderly Parent Social losses
November 23, 2009Friends or Your Lover? Guys, who do you hang out most?
August 17, 2009What Friends Are For But ask most married men how long it has been since they’ve hung out with an old friend from high school or college, and they’ll shrug sheepishly. The answer is often “years,” and we’re here to tell you that’s way too long.
Couple Barriers to Gut-level Communication continued
November 17, 2008Fear of upsetting my partner Sometimes we refrain from communicating what we really feel because we’re afraid it may hurt or upset our partners. We think that its heroic to “suffer in silence”. Sometimes it is confused with the biblical injunction to “bear your own burdens” or “to be the least”. A wife may feel [...]
Happy and unhappy are not opposites: Happily Marriage ever after continued
November 13, 2008What are my partner‘s expectations? Some expectations are determined by social roles (although these may be changing). For example, it is normally expected of a wife to prepare the meals. It is usually expected of the husband to see to the maintenance of the house, etc. Most expectations will depend entirely on the individual couple. [...]
