Alcohol relaxes us. This can be a great thing for your marriage if you’re anxious about something that might go badly at work tomorrow. You’ll be more ready for quality time together or some much needed physical touch. If it relaxes you so much that you forget to pick up your spouse at the airport, it can make a mess of things. Alcohol also reduces our inhibitions. This is wonderful...
I received this note recently from a reader of this blog. She gave me permission to share it with you. The income from their small start-up business has taken a dip recently. They are blowing through savings faster than they would like, and things get rather tense at times for them, as they do for many of us. Another great ‘assume love’ story….for mother’s day my husband...
Barbara Sher, author of I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was and several other wonderful books, says this frequently. Praise makes us brave. Want to nudge your partner to tackle a big project or make a challenging change? Praise gives a much bigger nudge than criticism does. Oh, how I have to remind myself of this, often in mid-criticism. I give myself a pat on the back for remembering...
I must thank wonderful Amna Ahmad for a brief post on her Facebook page a couple weeks ago, the day before my birthday. It read: My favorite definition of art has always been Tolstoy’s: art is infection. I am utterly infected by this book. I’m reading it, I can’t breathe, I feel sick, I can’t stop reading. So I bought Wave as my birthday gift to myself and read it in...
Got alerted to some interesting new research from the University of Illinois today, thanks to HealthDay. Between the ages of 4 1/2 and 6 1/2, your kids are learning to focus and persist at frustrating tasks. If they learn well, school is a lot easier. So is the rest of life, in my experience. Depressed fathers tend to withdraw. If they are depressed when their kids are this age, the kids have a...
