When you’re in the middle of a power struggle, whatever you’re fighting about feels incredibly important. You can start out disagreeing with your partner about the thermostat, and twenty minutes later you’re wondering if you should get divorced. You and your brother...
A couple years ago I was at Baskin-Robbins with my Gen Z kids, and when my milkshake came out so thick it was basically still ice cream, I asked the young woman behind the counter to thin it out. I asked nicely; there was nobody waiting in line, and I even tipped her...
If you’ve ever been disappointed or frustrated in a relationship, your expectations were too high. Think about it. Disappointment is what happens when you expect one thing and get another. Your own expectations don’t seem unrealistic to you, even though they often...
It seems like triggers are everywhere these days. Last week at my local coffee shop, I heard someone say they were triggered because they were out of the kind of tea they liked to drink. Maybe someone in your life says “I’m triggered” in the middle of an argument,...
You’ve been waiting for someone else to change first – your partner, your mother, your business partner, whoever it is – because you think the relationship can’t change until they do something different. Today you’re going to learn why...
You finally get the good thing: the relationship that’s steady, the promotion, the friendship that’s truly reciprocal, and right when it’s working, you pick a fight, or pull back, or suddenly find something wrong that wasn’t there last week....
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