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, too soon in the name
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 have led to lifelong love
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 of course!) these helpers. Here are
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 a mission to accomplish where
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 star to every wandering bark,
