Underestimate The Small Issues In A Relationship At Your Peril
A good marriage with someone we truly love is generally the fairytale that is sold to us by society, sometimes parents and definitely religion...
Connect With Yourself By Talking With Your Internal Family: A Real-life Depiction
I truly believe that the way we think about ourselves and the world we live in greatly determines the way we behave and act. We get that conditioning in childhood, good or not so good, and it is added to by gained experience over a period of time...
Codependency And Addiction: Why The Disease Model Will Never Work
The term codependency has gone through various changes in meaning over the years. Originally, it was only used to describe anyone who stayed in a relationship with a substance user and enabled that behaviour...
How To Assess Your Relationship For The R Factor. The Silent Killer Of Relationships
It is sometimes hard to imagine how some couples stay together and what keeps them that way. For many people, especially codependents, the need to be in a relationship is always there but just how much should you take from your partner in terms of the way they conduct themselves...
Staying When You Should Go? It’s A Choice And Every Choice Has A Consequence
There will be many people who have started the year with the thought that they need to change their relationship status from attached to unattached. Those same people might also have had that thought last year and the year before and maybe even the year before that...
How To Be An Effective Father: Get Involved!
What is it to be a good father? Much emphasis is placed on the bond a child has with its mother and the role of the father is often pushed into the background. Important as it is that the interpersonal bond with the mother is established...
Top Post Of 2020: Emotional Incest And The Golden Child
2020 was a year to forget and anything that could help us get through was welcome. Before the pandemic, however, we had other things on our minds as the post below shows. Of all the posts I published in 2020, the one below was the most popular...
Most Parents Have No Idea How To Parent Effectively
There are many good people in this world trying to parent their children the best they possibly can. The trouble is, their best is generally not enough and the consequences are felt by the child as it develops...
The Pandemic Has Made Me Realistic About Human Nature
The two lockdowns I have experienced this year have been good to me and my wife. Forced to stay at home, we have worked diligently on the business we work in together creating new projects, updating blogs and websites and generally concentrating on doing the job...
Setting Boundaries Teaches Others How To Treat You (And Other News)
People like me are always trying to make others see the value of setting healthy boundaries in the spirit of emotional honesty. That is expressing what you feel honestly and assertively when there is a feeling that a boundary needs to be set...