Relationships

I struggle with written directions. Reading financial statements stresses me out and makes my head spin. Following a written recipe is a challenge. I look like an early reader with my finger resting on each word.

So, there’s a lady at work I’ve been crushing on. I know work relationships aren't ideal, but it gets worse. She's in a relationship...

No one is immune to an affair and the quickest way to find yourself in trouble is to say, “It could never happen to me.”

We can’t control the events that the world will throw in our paths, but we do have the authority to manage our reaction to each and every one. That’s not to say that pain, fear, anger, and other negative emotions cannot play a role, but there comes a time when one must let go.

Have you ever watched one of those sappy romantic comedies and secretly wished you had a relationship like “they do in the movies?” I have a feeling many of us can resonate with that desire. After watching picture perfect love stories, we tend to develop an overwhelming urge to be in love and in a relationship just like the one we’ve been living through vicariously for the past two hours.

My husband and I are complete opposites: he is the logical one and I am the emotional one. We don’t always see eye to eye and, while we’ve very rarely had a full on, no holds barred argument in the eighteen years we’ve been together, we have had moments of uncomfortable disagreement.

Not everyone who has had an eating disorder also has an issue with perfectionism, but the two are often linked: A persistent feeling of never being “good enough” and needing to do something — anything — to feel under control is a warning sign that a person might be susceptible to an eating disorder.

We often do not see silence as being hurtful. We see the one in the partnership who is leaning back as the one who is keeping his or her cool, when in all reality this escalates things equally.