Wednesday Wisdom: Depression Doesn’t Lie

One of the things I continue to be impressed with despite my years of practice is how harsh we are toward ourselves when we are struggling in some way emotionally. It is really striking when you stop to think about it. Our response to our struggles is much kinder and wiser when we encounter physical problems. When we have a toothache, we swiftly get ourselves in to see the dentist. A bad cold? We try to get some antibiotics, drink fluids, and lay low. But depressed? Oh no!?!

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Wednesday Wisdom: Undeniable Love

It is said that to love and be loved is a great responsibility. A good relationship is absolutely not a game. It is all about the love between two people. Loving someone is one of greatest joys we can ever know but it can also hurt us more that we can ever believe. Loving someone is no ordinary thing to do. You should be ready to experience not only joys but also heartaches. To love is to take the risk. Unless we are willing to experience it, we will never know what it is like to love and be loved.

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Wednesday Wisdom: Ending Relationships When Children Are Involved

Most of us are aware of the complexes that involve a relationship yet every one of us fall prey to it. Getting into a personal relationship is as easy as throwing a stone in a pond but walking out of it is very tough. To put an end to a bond which we had valued the most and sweeping all the wonderful memories under the carpet fills us with an inner guilt. To make the decision to end any relationship requires one to be psychologically and emotionally strong.

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Wednesday Wisdom: Breathe Love Again

Almost all relationships go through periods where love seems to be the last thing on the priority list. Maybe you even get to the point where you honestly think that you just don’t love your partner any longer. When the fighting, and the money and the stress of everyday life start wearing you both down, everything takes on a murky tone. However, you owe it to yourself and your partner to exhaust all the resources before you even consider calling the whole thing off, don’t you think?

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Wednesday Wisdom: Lets Fight

You know how it is…. Sometimes you feel so much love for your boyfriend or husband you want to eat his face; other times, you’d like to kick him in the teeth. Well, feeling both love and hate (yep, actual hate) is totally normal. That’s because the same area of your brain that activates mushy feelings is also responsible for producing rage — which helps explain why even happy couples are destined to fight from time to time.

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Wednesday Wisdom: Lets Make A Love Deal (The Art of Compromise)

Compromise is certainly key in politics. But it’s no less key in relationships. Perhaps the main reason so many couples remain mired in power struggles is that they’re unable to grasp the elusive art of give-and-take. And the “my way or the highway” approach to solving relationship conflict is about as ludicrous as it is futile.

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Wednesday Wisdom: Blended Families

“Blended families” is a relatively new term in history, but it (or step families) has become part of every-day language in the last 50 years. In a sense, the blended family has become synonymous with a wicked step parent or step sibling of the “dysfunctional family” in our culture. Let’s not fool ourselves; our first exposures to blended families were poor examples.

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