When you’re sick, sometimes you feel like a burden. Even if you’re not “in the way” you may believe because you are not actively contributing that you are hindering. The only way to avoid piling this part of the suffering on to the rest of the suffering is to have compassionate, patient people around. It’s […]
It fluctuates between the confessions of love and the demand for performance. The success of laughter and the failure of words. The thought of familiarity and the knowledge that it remains superficial. It’s easy to fall back into the Spiral. You’ve talked yourself out of the manipulation and into new possibilities. Then, They, turn your […]
The cultural differences between people may be a lot to contend with once the relationship gets deeper. Initially, these differences are adorable or altogether ignored due to blindness. But, when we become mindful and self-aware, we have the capacity to actually deepen the friendship with our partner. Possibly. Or we could alienate them because they […]
I’ve wanted to find a book for same gender and queer couples to even out the playing field, if you will. I know many TLBGQI individuals already argued against marriage before it was a civil right (limited). So I wasn’t sure what I was in for. But here you have it, Writers on Same Sex […]
The Surprising Secrets of Highly Happy Marriages, written by Shaunti Feldhahn (Multnomah Books, 2013) is available for download on NYPL.org, through their app or online in pdf format. Before I begin my review of this book I want to share the table of contents. The table of contents are as follows: The Truth about Highly […]
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