How trust is earned
Feb 03, 2025
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If you've been married long enough, you will have experienced both: forgiveness and trust issues. These are the hills and valleys of the marriage journeyโinescapable, even for the holiest among the ringed ones. Yes, if youโre married, you are ringed. That symbol of eternal commitment on your left ha...
Did change break you?
Jul 26, 2023
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Have you considered that it doesn't take trauma or drama to break a person? Sometimes a loved one's relentless subtle messages that "you should change" tear away pieces of you in the same way as a naughty boy might strip the bark from a tree, oblivious that he might kill it!
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Have you noticed people don't sin the same?
Jul 19, 2023
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Do you ever look at what someone has gotten themselves into and think, "I'd never do that!" You may have a blind spot when it comes to your own shadowy side or it may be true that you'd never do such a thing, but it's also likely that the other person would never make the mistakes you make.
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How to lose "friends" and disappoint people
Jul 17, 2023
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Yes, I'm deliberately spoofing the all-time bestseller, ๐๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ง๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ง๐ญ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ. Nothing wrong with the book, except if we truly believe the lie that we can copy and paste some suggested behaviors and produce a predictable outcome in our relationship with anyone. The lie is:
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Boxes aren't for people
Jul 14, 2023
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(Excerpt from Chapter 5โUnboxing Personality in ๐ซ๐๐'๐ ๐ช๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐; ๐ฎ๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐)
People are like the pieces of peculiar art on Via Padova in Milan, Italy. Most passers-by see only the five yellow metal structures on the sidewalk: two circles, two triangles, and an arrow. However, those who look up at th...
Those people who hang over the fence and why I want to be like them
Jul 11, 2023
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My husband did a fine pruning job on the hydrangea in the corner of our yard last fall, hence the spray of off-white florets this summer. Driving home yesterday, I wondered what was proper pruning etiquette when it comes to prolific, wild flowering like what we have going on hereโand a fenc...