Tag Archives: frustration

Keep the Peace using Conflict Rules

June 9, 2011 – 10:13 am

Today we have a useful step for resolving frequent conflict in family relationships. Create “rules of engagement” with your partner or family members, and make sure that the rules are clear to everyone. The next time there is a conflict, these rules are to be strictly followed. What are some rules that we recommend? Well, [...]

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Wounded Children Nation

May 14, 2011 – 10:50 am

When our childhood is attacked by adverse situations in relationship with our parents, the effects can be long lasting in our lives and health. There is no way time only will heal a wounded inner child.

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Destroying love, one bit at the time

April 5, 2011 – 9:38 am

There is a slow way of killing the reciprocal love we all begin our married life with….composed of small, daily disappointments that will end up destroying reciprocal respect. What are they? Here is the list of all communication activities that enforce the idea that one spouse is better than the other: interruption of spouse’s explanation [...]

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Is Conflict our Way of Growing Up?

March 4, 2011 – 11:44 am

Let’s take a different perspective on conflict. Not one that tells the usual story about a victim and a victimizer, but a balanced view including both sides’ perspectives, as two players participating in a shared game:  to get satisfaction of their own needs. Any relationship is an implicit contract in which both individuals promise to [...]

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How to Deal with Difficult People

January 27, 2011 – 10:44 am

What does it mean, that someone is difficult? Every day, we come into contact with people that are walking emotional bundles. They carry the weight of past experiences with them, framing their present experiences as well as whatever wrong assumptions about life they have gained from those hurts. Their previous experiences have conditioned them, from [...]

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