Changing for the Better
Merely making our relationships last is just not good enough. Our relationships can change us. Our relationships should change us. Our relationships will change us for the better — if…
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Soften with Play
Growing older involves accumulating life experience in a way that allows us to know ourselves, and the world around us, generously, hopefully, and with a minimum of denial. If reality…
Choosing Not to Blame
Our intimate partners are by and large our most important persons. Because we share responsibility for our lives with them, because they are magnets for our disappointments, it is all…
Grievance vs. Mourning
If grievance is the act of wishing for a different past, then mourning is the act of accepting that past in order to allow a different future. — Mark O’Connell,…
We Need Faith.
To me, faith in God is a lot like marriage, which is faith in another person. It means a rock-solid commitment to giving God the benefit of the doubt, not…