Are you thinking that good communication is a valuable skill that is needed in your life? What about their impact on healthy relationships? Would you like to know the basic principles involved?
1. We need to treat each other with respect:
It means being considerate about other people’s needs, views and situations. Always ask if this is [...]
December 31, 2009 – 4:49 pm
If you are reading this blog, is because there is a sad side of your relationship. Instead of having security and support, constant appreciation and warm contact, you get indifference, hostility and sometimes outright abuse.
It is sad, and sometimes you think: Am I going ever to be happy?
Today, with the excitement of the New [...]
December 19, 2009 – 4:40 am
All couples need to learn the fine art of keeping their marriages alive and growing. We bring from our own families of origin some habits that left uncontrolled can be lethal to a love relationship. Even if you are honestly working to stay away from the deadly couple traps listen here, it will not be [...]
By norafem
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Posted in Anger Management, Healthy Marriage, Relationships, Uncategorized
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Also tagged anger, conflict, confrontation, critique, emotions, frustration, Healthy Marriage, passive aggression
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October 6, 2009 – 1:18 am
If you feel a need to be right, and impose your views, and take over the place of the “expert” in your marriage….well you need to know this is a dead end way.
We enter into relationships by choice… they are very different situations compared with the first one, when we were children and needed to [...]
September 2, 2009 – 10:11 pm
Sometimes, when wives ask themselves: Why is he behaving in this nasty way? they try to find an answer to the sadness and disappointment of having to live with an abusive person.
Do you remember the times when it felt as if everything you did was being watched and scrutinized by your man, all done with a suspicious and angry attitude? As if trying to catch you on something despicable? Making you feel like a berated child?
It makes you feel always unsure of being accepted or loved…walking [...]
Marriage is a covenant that requires a delicate balance between the members: the expectation is of reciprocal support and acceptance. When this attitude is not offered by itself, as part of the deal, some basic trust is broken.
How this issue is broached, makes the whole difference. Can we ask for support without feeling humiliated and [...]
We are all sure that having peace and harmony in our relationships keeps us healthy, vital and productive. We all know that, on the other hand, conflict can make us tense, sick and unhappy…only because we are scared of its consequences.
Unfortunately, harmony gets broken because we don’t know how to manage our daily conflicts without [...]
By norafem
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Posted in Uncategorized
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Also tagged aggression, anger, broken heart, conflict, confrontation, control, feelings, harmony, loneliness, recognition, Self-Esteem, support
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We are living in confusing times…the news keep bombarding us with information that is worrisome, difficult to act on and in general scary. What can we do to develop what is needed, a sense of resilience?
Where is this sense of inner strength coming from?
Sometimes our strength comes from having a positive sense of self. We [...]
By norafem
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Posted in Healthy Marriage, Marriage and Communications, Passive Aggressive Behavior, Relationships, Self-Esteem
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Also tagged attitude change, connections, isolation, loneliness, recognition, resilience, Self-Esteem
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Sometimes, it looks like we are immersed in a constant battle for power and control; there is always (a boss, a relative, even a spouse) putting us down in a daily basis….all for the sake of control.
What a refreshing event is it when we are treated with respect and care! The world needs more TLC, [...]
By norafem
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Posted in Emotional Abuse, Relationships, Self-Esteem
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Also tagged anger, discrimination, egalitarian, Emotional Abuse, humiliation, love, mad, psychological abuse, Relationships, verbal abuse
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