Communication

Mel Gibson starred in a fanciful comedy entitled What Women Want, where his character gets struck by lightening in his bathroom and wakes up with the unique ability to hear the thoughts of women.  Everywhere he went he heard the…
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Watching children work through apologizing provides a great learning tool for adults. Adults master their emotions better, but often the raw contempt of a child apologizing is brewing under the surface. This author observed her niece and nephew in the…
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If there is anything worse than climbing the Mount Everest without oxygen, that could tear your lungs apart, is to understand a female mind. God alone knows as to why it is so complex. When a man makes simple little…
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Couples will disagree at some point in their relationships. It is a normal and healthy experience, for everyone is different, and must be allowed to express their differences in a healthy non-threatening manner. It is when, communication is hampered by…
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Many troubled relations result from lack of trust.So how do you rebuild trust?Here are three crucial ingredients for healthy trusting relationship.1. Credibility.Do I believe this? Is it accurate?Don’t base your trust on a hope. Have evidence. Ask for something that…
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There is never a good way to tell your man you love someone else because anything you say means hurt. So, regardless of how the words are couched in gentleness, sensitivity and compassion, it is still going to hurt and…
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If a man is in love with you, it certainly isn’t going to be easy to tell him you are in love with someone else. It will immediately tear a hole in his heart and cause him to have an…
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Money politics in the home The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world” is a hackneyed clich that still comes to mind quite often, but how relevant is it in today’s world, with more and more women working, climbing…
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Of course a husband should tell his wife about his romantic past. Why wouldn’t he, unless of course he doesn’t trust his wife is strong enough to hear the truth. Could fear be the reason why some men and women…
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The key to having a successful relationship is communication. I have prov-en this fact from time to time in my current relationship. There are so many things that could misunderstanding within are relationship. Let me give you a simple example…
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So, in any relationship, how do you get from angst and frustration to accommodation, from conflict to resolution? You set up realistic expectations of the relationship. But that is not so easy because, in order to do this, you have…
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LIVED THROUGH THIS NIGHTMARE ALREADY My ex-husband was definitely emotionally abusive. The signs of emotional abuse can at first seem so slight. Mine began as just a simple question like “don’t you think you’ve eaten enough already?” and escalated to…
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With the advent of much computer literacy, long distance relationships (LDR) are easy to start but not easy to maintain. In any of the many chat rooms that can be found on the net, it is so very easy to…
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There is no doubt that most of us love to kiss, but there’s a lot more to it than puckering up. Discover some surprising facts about one of the world’s favorite pastimes. Kissing is such a common place pastime that…
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It’s been a long day. And truthfully, it feels as if it’s been a long marriage. I woke up this morning to the sound of my eight month old cooing in his crib next to me. What followed was a…
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My wife and I experienced a long-distance relationship when I was in California and she was in Boston. We both moved to Los Angeles so I could pursue my film-making career, but she had to give up her job as…
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The easiest way to avoid communication is to ignore it and pretend you know what the other person is talking about.I know I have been that person and it is’nt nice when your wife tells you that you are not…
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“The Power of Validation” Have you ever noticed that sometimes the woman in your life gets “stuck” in emotionally charged experiences and will talk about it until you want to drown yourself in the dog’s water dish? Would you like…
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In presenting tips for dealing with an alcoholic spouse, there are many ways in which it is like many other progressive and ultimately fatal diseases. Alcoholism is painful. It is painful to the alcoholic and to partners, children, parents, siblings,…
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“Love, a word that comes and goes, but few people really know what it means to really love somebody”(Kirk Franklin). It is a common reality that a person’s state, thoughts and decision making policy and philosophy is a function of…
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NEVER! Don’t tell him. Keep it to yourself or lie to him. There is never a “good” way to tell your man you love someone else. I don’t believe that “telling your man you love someone else” is a good…
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Is it even possible to communicate with my husband? I never believed it. Learning effective communication between couples takes time, commitment and proactive effort. It involves releasing pride and giving respect, opening minds and ears, and avoiding judgment. I am…
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He was tall, dark, and handsome and he lived four hundred miles away. Perfect, I thought. I didn’t want someone close to home. My life was busy and I wasn’t ready to jump head first into a relationship. We could…
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Understanding the female is a conquest to man. You might understand bits and pieces of the female mind, but is the biggest part to man’s quest for understanding. The female mind set will keep you under much duress. Being married…
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Mark Twain once wrote that love, is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. And one could stop there and call it a job; however, in his book The Four Loves, C.S. Lewis used over 120 pages in a lovely…
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Long distance relationships can be difficult to wrap your mind around because you can’t stand to be away from that person. Relationships in which every waking moment is spent next to that person are truly put to the test when…
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I met John at a hotel bar one summer when I was visiting my mom and dad, who lived a hundred miles away from my home. We hit it off instantly, but I initially assumed our encounter would be nothing…
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OK, I can tell you how not to do it and then hopefully you can work out how to do it well. 1) Out of the blue say you need to talk – without having given any warning signs that…
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When partners are having problems, they often say that the problem is communication. What exactly does this mean? What are they trying to communicate? There are various reasons for communicating: 1. Sometimes we communicate to offer information about ourselves, such…
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I became involved in a long distance relationship nine years ago. Yet, this story is not your typical one to tell. Throughout this very important relationship in my life, I married and he married. Moreover, not to each other. He…
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