In my previous article I addressed the Definiton of Cheating as a starting point for a discussion about the possible beginning, middle, and end situations that occur in a cheating situation.  Every cheating situation is different, but the main two choices that you have after this occurs are 1. break up or 2. stay together.
Most of the time when you’ve been cheated on you will want to immediately end the relationship that you are in.  If your relationship has been a struggle and you believe that the cheating was only a manifestation of other problems in your relationship like distrust, …read more

I’m skinny.  I’m tall.  I’m rich.  I have a job.  I have a great husband.  I am famous.  I have a hot boyfriend.  I have lots of friends.
There are a million reasons why someone might be jealous of you.  It might be something that you have control over, or it might be something that is just part of you naturally.  Humans are naturally competitive and when they see something in someone else that they desire for themselves, there is a definite tendency to feel that ugly little twinge of jealousy.
If you worry that someone in your life is jealous of …read more

Hurt, pain, negative emotions…these seem to all be things that people are afraid of.  We want to be happy, to enjoy life, to impress people with our optimistic perfection, and meanwhile soothe our own psyches into thinking that everything is good, or it will be if we can just control that one uncontrollable thing…
The uncontrollable thing might be a spouse, a stress, an illness, a situation, a parent…whatever.  There is that one thing that seems to thumb its nose in our faces everytime things look like they are coming into some sort of order.
And then hurt rushes in.

Communication is a pain.  I should know, it is what I do for a living as well as how I live.  Everything that I do is basically based on communication.

My work (freelance writer/pro-blogger, author)
My hobbies (reading, writing poetry, painting)
My style (talking will solve everything)

Yet I find that lately Marc and I are not communicating and it is my fault.  It is my fault because I want to communicate something to him that has no words and he is not bi-lingual.  If I try to make words for something that has no words then the words are far less meaningful than …read more

 
In my devotional today I came across this passage from a Madeline l’Engle book:
  My son-in-law, Alan Jones, told me a story of a Hassidic rabbi, renowned for his piety. He was unexpectedly confronted one day by one of his devoted youthful disciples. In a burst of feeling, the young disciple exclaimed, “My master, I love you!” The ancient teacher looked up from his books and asked his fervent disciple, “Do you know what hurts me, my son?” The young man was puzzled. Composing himself, he stuttered, “I don’t understand your question, Rabbi. I am trying to tell you how …read more