Tag Archives: humiliation

What kind of love enemy are you?

In a passive aggressive relationship, it’s easy to define what makes a bad enemy: hidden anger, sabotage, the cold shoulder, and so on. However, is it possible that there is also such a thing as a “good” enemy? If so, can a bad enemy be turned into a good one? Let’s remember what a marriage [...]

Wounded Children Nation

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.

10 Rules for Friendly Fighting for Couples (Guest Post)

By MARIE HARTWELL-WALKER, ED.D. For some people, this is a truly radical idea: There is no need to fight with your partner. Ever. Accusations, recriminations, character assassination, threats, name-calling, and cursing, whether delivered at top volume or with a quiet sarcastic sneer, damage a relationship, often irrevocably. Nobody needs to be a monster or to be treated monstrously. [...]

How to Deal with Difficult People

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 [...]

Signs of a difficult boss

We all know that it is hard to work for someone you simply can’t respect. However, is that lack of respect a sign of a faulty boss, or a faulty worker? Though the question is hard, maybe even confrontational, it is important to remember that everyone has points in their lives where they need to [...]