Communication

When we are in a marriage, or any other relationship that is important to us, we use communication in many ways and in various forms. How we choose to communicate and what we are saying when we do have the…
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It’s hard to say how it happened.  It was a gradual process.  Before you knew it, you found yourself doing everything for everybody else and not having a shred of time left for the activities you love to do.  Your…
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Being shy often makes it difficult to have an active social life.  Creating and developing relationships becomes too difficult and loneliness becomes the only steady companion. Luckily, there are ways for that to change. Why shyness can make it diffiult…
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Silence is not always the blessing that people make it out to be. There are times, many times, when it is far better to speak up, speak out and say how you are feeling. This is especially true in close…
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There are cultural stereo types. Years of Hollywood heroes riding off alone into the sunset have their effect. Such expectations loom large. However, the reality is only a partial truth. Perhaps big boys don’t cry over spilt milk, but just…
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You work at work, you work at home. You clean, do laundry, prepare meals, and tidy the house because your mother in law is coming for a visit. You take your children to their various activities, cheer for the soccer…
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Personal time is not only essential to your well-being but it will enhance all areas of your life.  In the crazy, stressful world around you, the challenge is always how to find personal time without compromising the needs of family…
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Negativity from the word itself is not a very productive word. The aspects of life may vary in different degrees but if you only see things as half bad as they are, you will not be able to see the…
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For someone to describe colors to a blind person they really need to know how long someone has been blind.  Not all blind people were born blind.  I have been around blind people all of my life.  Both of my…
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Have you ever broached a topic only to be silenced by “we will not discuss that!” Or, worse yet, received no response? Sadly, hard topics often end up in a heap of denial; swiftly swept under the rug. So, now…
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The things women wish men knew stretches well beyond the magic number of ten, and the same could be said in reverse in all fairness. There really is no universal set of answers all women are likely to agree with…
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Miscommunication is almost always damaging to all sorts of relationships, even including to our own selves. This is because it is cutting us off from receiving the full love that accompanies all communication, and every connection that is being made…
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White lies are the worst kind of lies which can be told. They have the potential to (and often do) create negative repercussions which many people telling them are completely unaware of at the time. With political correctness running rife through mainstream…
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Colors have many features and expressions with a language all their own. They speak to us through landscapes in this world and reflect emotions. From the everyday occurrences in our lives to extraordinary moments, colors outline and shade our days…
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Men seem to believe that women are a strange and unpredictable breed, but I’m not quite sure why that is. For the most part, we all seem to want the same things. We want to feel the same things, hear…
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You would think that women speak a different language than men. When women express the importance of their wants, needs, and desires to men, the words seem to go in one ear and out the other. A woman could express…
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For those who consider themselves hard workers, it is a badge of honor to work long hours or be identified as the person who runs the home and family. To be recognized as the hardest worker in the place is…
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Every relationship has its ups and downs: every friendship, and marriage; every parent and child; every boss and employee; every teacher and student. So what are we to do when it happens? There are several things that might cause relationship…
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Since women don’t come with a user’s manual, relationships of any sort between the sexes can be fraught with frustration. Women are complex; we think, feel, function and act differently from men in varying degrees. Finding consensus of ten things…
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Without a doubt, the mass majority of men today will agree with the french historian Jules Michelet, (1798-1874) who stated: “Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions”. In keeping with this thought process, Irish poet, novelist, dramatist and critic Oscar…
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In this world, someone that takes time to themselves is seen as antisocial or plain rude to turn down the chance to be around others. But for many, having alone time is all that keeps them sane. There are those…
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Checking a woman out is an art form. Take it from women who have been checked out, just like every other woman that has ever lived and breathed. We have seen it all and laughed a lot. After almost forty…
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You can strengthen any relationship, with an open and honest approach to communication. Keeping your feelings out in the open will prevent a build up of resentment inside. There are timely song lyrics, ‘smile though your heart is breaking’, that…
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Former First Lady Betty Ford is rumored to have once told the media that ‘the day Gerry stops looking at women will be the saddest day in my life because it will be the day I’ll be arranging his funeral’….
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In a world where the divorce rates seem to grow by the minute no one is being taught to value relationship. Woman Just as much as men do not respect relationship. Learning the importance of a relationship is taught very…
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Work, baseball games, chauffeuring children to various places of interest, cleaning, shopping, and of course the plain old busy work that you have to do to keep your life in order. All if this builds daily on your stress counter…
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Realistically, rejecting someone is far from easy. More often than not, fear of hurt feelings or repercussions as a result of, is the underlying reason it’s so hard to do. It stands to reason therefore, that such a situation should…
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You work hard on your job. You come home and work some more, doing the laundry, preparing meals, caring for your children, keeping the house presentable and at least clean enough to be healthy. Then you have another important thing…
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It’s well documented that women are more emotional than men and think more than men. Women don’t react to a situation until we’ve had a moment to think. Within the thinking process things may make a woman feel overwhelmed and…
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Busyness can easily become a hurdle in one’s me time.  Anyone, parent or not, needs a certain amount of me time for a well balanced life and peace of mind.  Life is too short to put yourself last.  Take care…
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