I once asked a friend what he thought the most important ability or skill one had to have in order to maintain a relationship. He thought it over for a minute, and responded that it was a willingness to make…
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Life occasionally presents us with difficult, seemingly impossible choices. We are forced by circumstance to choose between one form of agony and another, to be burned by fire or be frozen by cold. How do we make these decisions, and…
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September 10, 2013 Marriage and Divorce
The dissolution of a marriage is a traumatic, life-altering event, the scope of which is difficult to communicate to those who have not been through it. Habits and rituals formed over years of being with a particular other person are…
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August 15, 2013 Marriage and Divorce
My wife and I began dating in summer of 2001. It was a whirlwind romance, and within two months we were living together in New York. That September, the unthinkable happen when the World Trade Center was hit by terrorists,…
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