Tag: relationships
Human Connection: Amid Pandemic, Take Pen in Hand
Human Connection: I've kept every handwritten letter I ever got, in boxes in my attic. One Saturday in 2000, when I was moving from Pittsburgh
Warming the cold war
Warming the cold war
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Balancing helping others with self-care
When I was young, my father and I bonded over archery. Dad taught me that I had to unstring the bow when I wasn't...
Gaslighting children: Manipulating kids into adulthood
Childhood is scary. As a child you are small, and everything around you is big and loud and fast; time moves slowly, and you...
When Your Partner “Just Wants You to Listen”
You’ve likely seen the hilarious YouTube video about the wife with a nail in her forehead, telling her husband about the pressure and pain...
Are you a ‘bored couple at the restaurant’?
There may be no greater argument against lifelong monogamy than the bored couple at the restaurant. "Oh, please don't let us end up like...
New Year’s resolutions: How to keep ’em
There are countless stories and jokes about abandoned New Year's resolutions, perhaps because the experience is so universal. When it comes to self-improvement, it...
Happily solitary
‘Tis the season for unending advertisements about togetherness, community, and family. Conversations with strangers always seem to gravitate this way in the winter as...
Do you need less conflict and fighting, or more love and...
"Don't go wasting your emotion. Lay all your love on me." - ABBA
We have to show our loved ones that we love. It's a...