Know. Define. Love.
Getting boundaries right. All relationships require definition – something that reminds those involved why they’re with or around each other. Many relationships become confused or upended after making discoveries about others that would have been just fine in the right context; or after giving up too much,
Today I Choose
Today I Choose Today I choose love, because I know we're all imperfectly perfect. I choose kindness because I want the same in return. I choose peace because there would be too much to worry about. Today I choose patience, knowing that nothing that bothers me is here
Of Endings and Beginnings
What to do when it doesn't work out. Year ends and New Years are often marked by a rush to end old relationships and start new ones. Of course, some relationships are best ended or redirected but there may be that fraction of prematurely ended relationships that could
Stop! Don’t Kill Your Helper
How to receive help. We thrive best when we are in fulfilling relationships. While our completeness cannot be found in people, we often need people ('helpers') who help us get to our place of fulfilment. Care must therefore be taken in each of our relationships not to 'kill' (figuratively speaking
Always Faithful
Why faithfulness (still) matters. Semper Fidelis (Always Faithful), the motto of the US Marine Corps resonates with their expectation of soldiers not only seeing missions through to the end, but of standing with one another through thick and thin. There is no harm in seeing marriage as
She’s So Pretty
Harassment is never okay. I was on a tram a few days ago when two men came on board at a stop. They had a dog with them, beer cans in hand and a carton of more beer in tow. They seemed out to 'enjoy' themselves with one
Holding up the bus
Who's riding with you? How often, and to what degree do our actions and inactions affect the people seated in the ‘bus’ of our lives, especially those we are in direct relationship with? What got me thinking of this is an experience I had where one man, through
Loving Again
Sonnet 116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the
Until You Are Alone
Using 'me time' for inner wholeness. Social networks and online friendships are here to stay. With high volume 'friend' counts becoming an ego boost, aloneness can easily be rejected as a form of social suicide. With many people dealing with issues of loneliness, positive companionship is rightly to
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