Picture if you will: It’s early October. The smell of autumn is brisk and sharp in the air, breaking through the oppressive humidity of the last few weeks. You no longer arrive at work with your head all sweaty, looking like a used hankie. Your shoes have stopped sticking to the street. Thank god for [...]
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Just When You Thought You Were Over Him …
February 12, 2010What about the parent who has sacrificed a life for her/his child, and the child abandons the parent?
January 15, 2010“Sacrificed a life“! Weighty words indeed. What do they mean? Sacrifice means to “give up” — but has this parent given up a life for a child? Or has the parent devoted his/her life to the child? I would assume that the latter is what is meant. Unfortunately, this does happen. Unfortunately, because the parent [...]
Marriage Doubts
December 4, 2009Marriage is like a cage; the birds outside are desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Unlived life is a destructive and irresistible force working quietly but relentlessly. The result is that the married woman begins to doubt marriage. The unmarried woman believes in it, because she desires marriage.
High Price of Love, Money in the Bank
September 12, 2009Should you get joint accounts, separate accounts, or a combination of both? It really depends on your communication style. To help you decide, here’s a rundown of the most common ways to manage money.
Breaking Down the Breakdowns
September 2, 2009Like a complex machine with a lot of moving parts, communication can break down for many reasons. Each of these reasons has a remedy, but you have to know enough about the machine and its parts to spot the problem and get some glimmer of an idea how to fix it.
The Fight in a Love Relationship
August 12, 2009No love (or no love worth having, anyway) is totally smooth sailing. That would be ridiculous, and boring, besides. True love calls for a little tussling, a little hysterical scene-making, a little verbal jai-alai. When he puts the empty Chinese food carton back in the fridge or flips television channels like his life depends on [...]
Love Speculation: Distance Technique
August 12, 2009When it comes to breakups, the distancing technique is the number-one signal of impending doom. Distancing involves one member of the relationship investing less of himself or herself in the other person. “If he’s the one doing it,” “you’ll notice him withdrawing both emotionally and in terms of time and attention.
Women Who Want Men to Talk More
February 3, 2009The third most common reaction women have when they experience the imbalance of emotional role reversal is to long for their men to talk more and share themselves in traditionally feminine ways.
A woman in this third stage longs for a man to open up and share his feelings the way she would if she were [...]
Irrational Thoughts and Intense Arguments
January 16, 2009A young trainee manager complained bitterly about his immediate boss, because he was being given far too much responsibility. He thought that his boss was simply “passing the buck” and he obviously felt resentful. When pointed out to him that this was actually an indication of the high regard that his boss had for his [...]
Predestined Dating
November 29, 2008We all sometimes love to marvel about things like, ‘Had I never gone to the Pizza Hut that day, I would never have met her . . .’ or, ‘It all began when I spotted him in the police line-up.’ It is fine, so long as you understand it as deep mystery, the romantic beginning [...]
